I Became A Mom At 37 And

I Can See How The Young Girls Really Get Hurt When Their Moms Are Critical, Or Vice Versa When They're Overly Critical Of Their Moms. It Can Be So Painful.

I Want To Be An Integrated Woman.

I Don't Want To Sit On The Sidelines And Not Value The Gift Of Being Here. Instead Of The Idea Of Time Ticking Away, The Grains Of Sand Running Out, I Try To Think Of Time As Giving Me Another Grain Of Sand, Another Gift. So Time Passing Is An Accumulation, Rather Than A Diminishing.

My Mother Says I Was Two-and-a-half When I Started Playing. My Father Was A Minister, And When He Went To Church In The Morning, She Would Put On Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole And Cole Porter Records. I'd Crawl Up On The Piano Stool, Sit On A Phone Book And Play.

I Think You Need To Have People Around You Whose Standard Is High And Who Don't Accept Anything Less.