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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

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Self-Esteem, I Think, Very, My Self

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

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Shooting, Very, TV, Episodic

I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

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Think, Been, I Think, Realizing

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

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Happy, I Am, Loved, Peg

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

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Work, Father, Grow, Understood

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

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Think, I Think, Equally, Writes

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

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Music, Think, I Think, Interpret

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

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Work, Kid, Lot, Travelled

I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.

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Values, Morals, Sometimes, Struggle

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

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Play, Lot, Tend, Costume

I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

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Thought, Doing, Always, Perky

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

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Television, Sometimes, Mixed, Blessing

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

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Play, Want, Through, Play Music

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

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Office, Little, Where, Kitchen

I think I'm a soulful singer.

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Think, Singer, I Think, Soulful

And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.

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Voice, Think, Always, Presence

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

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Listening, Folk Music, Lot, Soul Music

But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.

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My Life, Grow, Through, Transitional

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

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Faith, System, Same, Um

I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

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Mom, Doing, Some, Juggle

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

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Lawyers, Like, Imagine, Lawyer

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

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Music, Which, Extremely, Intuitive

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

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Pain, My Life, Certainly, Experienced

I think we respond well when we do something well.

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Think, Well, I Think, Respond

I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

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Big, Sometimes, Idol, Hearts

When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

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Play, Deal, Your, You Guys

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

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Some, Really, Sang, Covers

It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

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Woman, Play, Pretty, Deals

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

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Singer, Show, Had, Sung

I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.

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Husband, Gal

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