"I never had a mother that was really a mother. I just had a kid that was a mother. She was eighteen, I was thirteen, and she used to go out and live it up. So I had to go out and get a job. I was work…"

"I was turning tricks as a call girl, but I decided I wasn't going to be anybody's maid."

"As mother and daughter yelled at each other, Billie screamed, 'God bless the child that's got his own!'"

"Love is like a faucet: it turns on and off."

"I've been through a lot of changes, but I'm still the same old Billie."