I like fashion. I enjoy playing with it.

I like to describe my style as S&M chic with a little hood-rat appeal.

I don't think anyone should tap you on the shoulder and tell you that it's time to sit down and retire.

I trust my gut a lot.

I'm a big dreamer.

Erika Girardi likes her hair straight with a lot of product, just a really good blow-dry. Erika Jayne likes her hair ropey with a lot of product, really rock star and wild.

As human begins, we all have layers to ourselves, you know?

I've grown up disciplined all my life as a dancer, so I know how to eat and work out.

My breakfast is egg whites, avocado and grilled tomatoes. Lunch is usually some type of chicken and then for dinner... I like to eat. I'll eat pasta even though I'm not supposed to.

The television in my bedroom is always on, so after I get out of the bath and put on my jammies, I sit in bed, curled up in my comforter with Tom, and we watch the news together until we fall asleep.

After dinner, there is no eating until the morning. My mom was really big on that.

You know, I entertain whether I'm on 'Housewives,' or whether I'm on 'Dancing With the Stars,' or whether I'm on 'Young and the Restless.'

Whether I'm performing in a club or onstage as Erika Jayne, whether I'm making records, whether I'm doing TV, I've got to entertain, and I have to take people away from their space and bring them into mine.

I had never, ever thought about being on any 'Real Housewives' show, so it was interesting to actually be on one.

I'm a very guarded person, very controlled person.

I've become rather desensitized to how much sexy I put out.

I lived Tom Girardi's legal life with him first 10 years of our relationship. I went to every legal organization, every event - all of those groups he belonged to and those speeches he gave.

I think that's what makes marriage work - when you allow each other to be strong in their chosen profession; when you support each other and love each other.

I grew up with gay family members, and I went to a performing arts high school. So I grew up in children's theater, musical theater, and all of my life has been around the LGBT community.

You create real friendships through a growth process. It's not just, oh hi, we're friends! That's very childlike. True adult friendships take time, understanding, and it's a plant that needs to be watered and tended to so that it blossoms.

I think as more women see that there are women out there building vibrant and creative and powerful lives and careers in their 40s, 50s, etc., then these older views of ageism will fall away.

I have a great family, and I have a great home, husband, and son. So I think that's probably all anyone ever needs anyway. Everything else is the icing on top of the cake to be quite honest.

I think that I've enjoyed my time on 'Real Housewives.' It's been a great opportunity, and I've had a lot of fun and have been able to see a lot of great things and meet some really cool people.

Both my husband and I come from very modest backgrounds. He's obviously done very well, and I've worked hard all my life and done well, too.

I made dance records and the gay community gravitated toward them. They gave me a place to really shine, a place to develop, and a place to spread my wings - I'll forever be grateful for that.

'Chicago' has got such great women characters. It runs off two women, so what could be better than that?

Before I was cast on 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,' I had secretly quit Erika Jayne altogether.

I had everything that you want. Every material object. Everything. But inside my core I still wasn't satisfied.

Listen, I'm rebellious. Okay? I always have been.

Who knows what happens with 'Housewives?' I will say this, what a great opportunity to have been on the show, and the doors that it's opened for me, and I have nothing but great things to say about the show.

Not everybody wants to be on TV, believe it or not.

All artists, no matter who they are, have always come into contact with criticism. No one's gonna like what you do 100 percent of the time.

When I do my makeup, it doesn't look professional.

I'm a big sports fan and go to games.

My husband's a lawyer, and I lived a lawyer's wife's life.

I was a starving artist.

I'm very firm in my beliefs.

I'm never going to be a gourmet cook.

Nobody's ever going to marry me for my cooking skills.

I don't know him. I didn't grow up with my father. We don't speak.

It's all too easy to say, 'You didn't have a dad, therefore, you married an older man.' Listen, I didn't marry my dad. My dad is much younger than my husband.

There is a certain amount of conflict that comes with being a 'Housewife.' It is not a comfortable position. If you are comfortable, you aren't doing your job.

My mother was very hard on me when I was a child. I think she was raising me how the world was treating her.

If I'm on the plane, I insist on being comfortable. I don't believe in getting dressed up to fly. There's no reason for that, especially when it's 16 hours to fly internationally.

I lived in New York from 1989 to 1996, and I feel like I just got used to carrying everything around.

If you want to look good it's hair, it's makeup, it's wardrobe, and then those people that help facilitate that. They're not cheap.

As an artist you always want to evolve and you always want to grow.

I like to slip out in the middle of the night and take my Lamborghini and drive it really fast on the highway.

I don't think my father wanted to be a dad.

When I moved to California, I always knew that my son would eventually come out and live with me.