I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.