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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 am 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 is one job I am even more proud of, and that is being a mom to my three kids, Rebecca, Jake and Shelby.

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I will 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 do learned to sew because I am obsessed with Project Runway!

If I have any talent at all it is 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 was not a man made a big difference.

I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.

Every kid needs to say, I want what my mom and dad have.

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I was not that way growing up.

My mom obviously had a problem.

It is been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

I have never had siblings, I did not grow up in a big family it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, Wow, that is a really wonderful man.

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Do not give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.