I do as much charity work as I can and that my family life will allow. I do believe charity begins at home and the more we focus on our families, the better they will be.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?

I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.

It is true that nobody is above the law, but power can make somebody invisible.

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

My strong suit is that I've been willing to risk on the page to get somewhere interesting.

A country without idols is nothing.

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

No yesterdays on the road.