I totally give credit to God for all of this stuff, because if I had tried to make these things happen, I couldn't have. To have all these things happen has been absolutely amazing. The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.

What I've learned is you treat women right.

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.