I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.

The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to.

The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.

My life started being awesome five years ago.

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

I always want to stretch myself and do something that I haven't done before.

It’s funny – my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you’re doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn't have kids - but divorce is hard.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

It is with words that my heart sings, with the substance of integrity my character soars and without regret I look back smiling ~bns

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

It's a new day: Full of promise and love. The only thing that can take away that great feeling is - reading the news or speaking to people.

The key statistic is still to get to the foul line.

Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.

Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.