Growing up, I always had my dreams set on being an actor, so I looked up to Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn.

We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.

I'm learning every day, and I have been since the minute I became a mom.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.

My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn't advertise that way, and I'm an American first.

I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fostered or adopted.