Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Only in hindsight can we see that out fears and worries were unwarranted, that insecurities and doubts were just illussions, or that we should have taken a risk or dared something new sooner.

The duty of a Christian is to obey Jesus Christ.

I don't really seem to gravitate to romantic comedies.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

Women are not forgiven for aging.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.

At the end of the day, besides everything that I do, I'm still just a 20-year-old girl and a Texan, at that.