I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

Mom worked with autistic children.

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be.

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid.

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.