I have been TAKING voice and SINGING lessons since AGE 10 and originally got into it because I was really INTERESTED in MUSICAL theater. After writing my first couple of songs and performing at age 14, I knew that I really wanted to be a singer.

How can you go WRONG with two people in LOVE? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good BOYS and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has NOTHING to do with sexual orientation.

In a prime-time address, President Bush SAID he backed limited FEDERAL funding for stem cell research. That's RIGHT, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and WHATEVER it is I have.

I made my BROADWAY debut in the revival of Hair and FOLLOWED it up with the BUS and truck TOUR of Grease.

If we do not GET No Child LEFT Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the LAW will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for MANY across the nation.

For me, there's STILL a LOT of room to grow; I'm just HAPPY that I have so much more to GIVE.

I TRIED surfing once in BRAZIL, but I'm KIND of CLUMSY.

I'm a really GIFTED PHYSICAL comedienne. I WRITE and PRODUCE a LOT of sketch comedy.

I have a GLAM SQUAD, as most on-air people do. I think CNN has some of the best makeup ARTISTS, quite frankly.