Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, 'What?'

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.

Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.

I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.

I want to pave my own path artistically.

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

If I kissed my wife in public, I'd lose the next election.