I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.
There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at things on YouTube, but when you get in a room full of people and you say one joke, and everyone's laughing at the same thing, it's a really great experience.
Miss Britney Spears took a dude that was already with a girl that had babies. And sometimes when you do that kind of stuff and take a dude, that's called karma.
What helped was that my mother, even though we didn't have a lot of money... allowed me to take part in the Girl Scouts.
I've seen Don Rickles up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Don Rickles was doing jokes in a wheelchair, and he was headlining a show. Do you think they would let a woman do that?
It's always good to laugh.
Now that I live in Los Angeles, if I meet somebody from Detroit, it's like there's this brother- or sisterhood, where we're real folks.
I tend to be everybody's best friend, and it kind of goes over into my comedy.
With comedy, I try to steer toward, you know, talking about people that do crazy things, messed-up things. That's what I like to talk about.
I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.
I'm hearing from fans about how they got out of an abusive relationship. That's why I tell people you've got to watch 'The Real.' We are about comedy and inspiration, but personal moments come up, and people are moved by it.
We have to remember that people are free to love who they want to love. That also means that black women are free to love who they want to love.
I do talk about celebrity relationships like Kim Kardashian's. I like to find the humor in love.
The late, great Joan Rivers actually gave me so much advice, and she was so nice to me before she passed.
I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.
I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.
I think that, for so long, there was only one type of actor, and now you see these different colors, different people, different shapes and different sizes. It just makes it more interesting.
The thing is, it's that Detroiters are hard workers. We've always been hard workers, even when times are down. I've been able to take that with me, that work ethic, to help me build my career.
We provide comedy for everybody, no matter what your race or gender. We just want people to come out and have a really good time.
It's been a long haul. It may seem to some people that have never heard of me, 'Oh she just popped up on the scene,' but I've been working on this for some time.
