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.

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.

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

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.

Imagination is a sacred intuition.

Love?! When a piece of broke heart hits you.

When I was seven I wanted to be a footballer, but when I was 14, I wanted to be a model. Look where it's put me now!

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way.

I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.

I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer.

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

When you go through a negative situation, don’t think about it. Make it positive.