Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.

I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

I'm so proud to represent the people of South Florida. I was so honored when President Obama asked me to serve as chair of the Democratic Party. But there's one job I'm even more proud of, and that's being a mom to my three kids, Rebecca, Jake and Shelby.

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 was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.