You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.

I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?

God hears a mother's prayer.

I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.

Love didn't always solve the problem; sometimes it became the problem.

I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.