This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15 so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls the better.

I was watching TV at age 9 or 10 and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18 then you can. It was a very simple story yet I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.

I slept with my mom until I was 16 years old.