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 think the problem is when people hear 'arts education,' they think, 'I don't want my son to be some painter that's going to be hanging in some museum after he dies. I don't want my daughter to be a struggling artist making no money.' People don't realize it's more than that. It's beautiful. It brings beauty to our lives.

I come from a family where two wheelers were not allowed. No seriously not even a tiny cycle around the compound.

They're always saying that tragedy brings family closer, but unfortunately, sometimes it doesn't work like that.

If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, forgiveness.' That's the greatest gift that I've been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do.