I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with ‘welcome’ written on it.

Normalcy to me is enjoying the simple things in life.

I do have some weeks coming up in the summer where I will actually be in my house, and I love working on new music and all of that.

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

I am grateful for the men and women who pastor, who lead in churches across our country. Ultimately, their role of loving people and seeing hearts changed is probably the greatest calling.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.