"We get along real well actually [with my husband Karl Tomas Din]. We give each other space and he's not in the business and he doesn't want to be. I'm interested in his world, he's interested in mine, but we have our own things that we do together."
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"I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy."
"In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week."
"I have a good attitude. And I was born with a happy heart. I'm always looking for things to be better."
"I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about."
"I have a life outside the arenas."
"The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!"
"I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine."
"Many of my friends are gay, male and female. I don't judge people. I don't care what people do in their bedrooms and people shouldn't care what I do in mine."
"If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school."
"My mistakes are no worse than yours."
"I have two favorite colors - white and yellow. White makes me feel light and airy. Yellow makes me happy."
"I haven't stopped working since I was 10."
"A baby, a real live baby was the craziest thing a fan has sent. Someone left a baby on our front doorstep with a note that they wanted us to raise it. Of course, we contacted the authorities and they took care of the baby."
"I'm just a person; I like to experience whatever the feeling is and whatever I'm going through."
"I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc."
"You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen."
"Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much."
"The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!"
"People will use you as long as you let them."