My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

Most of my life is taken up with family. It takes me awhile to get a record together that I feel is worthy of putting out.

When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.

I grew up really religious, and my family still is, but I'm not so much. That scene in 'Cool Hand Luke', it just destroyed me.

Our next-door neighbour taught physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematicians. Supersonics experts held leadership positions in my mother's sorority, and electrical engineers sat on the board of my parents' college alumni associations.