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Wakeup call, because i thought about all the times, you know, all the people who, you know, are killed in drunk driving accidents. and i was -- i could have been -- it could have been a lot worse. it actually wasn't a dui. it was reckless driving. i was not actually impaired. but i was over the legal limit. and it just made me think, that's not responsible. that's not the right thing to do. wake up. get it together. you know, i'm fine with checking myself when i'm, you know, when i'm not doing the right thing. >> larry: do you think maybe u lindsay lohan can get it together? >> i think anybody...

Latifah, all these different monikers that you could put on. but i thought queen. my mom raised me to be a queen. queen. queen latifah. i asked all my boys and they thought it was cool. i went with it, larry. >> larry: good move. we'll be back with the queen -- >> with the queen. >> larry: the book is "put on your crown" right after this. granola nut clusters from nature valley. 100% natural nuts and granola in bite sized clusters. it's a little bit of nature... a little bit better. and nature approves. granola nut clusters from nature valley.

Dre dream. we were these kids that had all this idea, had this drive, determination, trying to create things and make things happen. but we never went to business school. like certain things we just didn't do right. and i wound up with big tax bill that was due. and i had paid all these bills for all these things, and i didn't have the money to cover it. so i was kind of broke. >> larry: what did you do? >> just talked to my accountant and figured out. obviously we had to negotiate with the irs, get on a plan to pay off these, you know, payment plan. >> larry: they can be good about it, though...

As such and we should request that sort of treatment from others. so putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. you're a great woman. wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women we forget -- we forget that about ourselves. so putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, i'm a queen, and i can do what i want in this life, and take it, you know -- >> larry: this is a how-to book? >> actually more of a conversation. just a conversation that i'm having with the readers, sharing some of my experiences and h...

I'm pretty good at coming up with things like that, larry. >> larry: one day sitting around and you said, i think my name is going to be queen? >> this might sound crazy, but i was 8 years old. and my cousin, shiranda, brought this muslim book of names over. and each name had a meaning to it. so when i read the name latifah, it said, delicate, sensitive, kind, nice. and i was 8 years old. but i was big for my age. i was usually like the biggest girl in class. but i was a teddy bear on the inside. i was all those things, delicate, sensitive, kind, nice. and i thought to myself, that should be m...