But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.

I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

Love is when I smile and breathe deeply down to my toes. I've given myself a gift of caring for myself and learned a new way to look at my issues. And I'm lying in some fresh sheets looking out the window at some visual beauty... a mountain, an ocean, a stream, a forest. A lovely man lying next to me or my babies sleeping.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

I have always loved Ed Norton and Ryan Gosling. Also Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett.