When I was 2 my mom said she knew I was going to be a singer. I`ve been performing ever since I was a young kid. So I`ve known I wanted to do this for awhile. I always knew in my heart that I`d be singing.
My mom wouldn't let me sing 'Strawberry Wine' because it had 'wine' in it.
My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.
We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.
I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.
My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.
My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.
My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.’
I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.
I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.
My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be.
No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.
My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!
Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.
My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.
My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.
I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.
My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.
I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.
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