I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.

There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.

My home is in Chicago, but I have an apartment in Los Angeles.

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

Everybody knows when you're a struggling family; you don't really know it when you're a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there's, like, this happiness.