If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.

I've been in leadership roles on Broadway, and it's one thing to lead a Broadway company - you're with those people for a year straight, and you're doing that same show, eight shows a week. It's quite another when you carry on the story... You go beyond that, and you ride the wave of a character.

I think my family sees me playing a pastor on TV and thinks that's a way of saying I have the calling, too.

I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.

I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.