I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I feel out of touch.

I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.

If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

I, like many people, am constantly on my phone.

People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones.

I'm open to whatever is meant to be, it will be.

I think people really don't like cops so much; they're kind of rude to them or treat them like they can't see them.

When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.

I feel like the ideal length is three months. I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.

If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

It means the most when your team always supports you.

The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!

The most important thing to remember in life is to be kind.

Jesus Christ as only an example will crush you. You'll never be able to live up to it. But Jesus Christ as the Lamb will save you.

Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.