I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.

When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that was left over. So I cut a big hole in the box, and I made it like a giant TV set. I brought it into the living room, and I did the news and the weather for my family.

As a mother of four children, I want to know the drugs I'm giving them are safe. And as an American businesswoman, I want to keep jobs here, and that means making sure foreign drug plants have to meet the same standards as domestic ones.