Becoming hurts.

Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked

Perhaps the only happily ever after is to survive to tell the story

This is what happens, when things are not quite a fairy tale.You go into the woods to find your story. If you are brave, if you are fortunate, you walk out of them to find your life.

This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be earned, and not everyone makes it that far.

Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

Easter is one of my favorite holidays with the kids. They get to run loose, and we always have our family and loved ones all around us!

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.

Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

I always carry a good lipstick with me, like MAC in Ruby Woo. It has a matt finish, the essence of that vintage glamour look.

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.

The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.