People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.'

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

There are so many people I wish I could have met:

We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.