While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning in the center. I was fascinated! When my mom picked me up, I began a campaign for skating lessons.
My mom was born in San Diego, around Vista. So we've always been California people.
I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom, you're so happy!' And I do feel happy. I feel joyful inside. I can't explain it.
When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.
There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.
My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.
My mom wouldn't know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.
My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.
When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to ...
What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid; why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.
I think 'Actions speak louder than words' is one thing, I think, I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.
I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!
Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.
It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.
Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.
I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
I'm a mom first, a singer second.
My mom was a single parent.
My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
