Confidence is seen, not heard.

Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

My experiences remind me that it's those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.

I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.

I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl.

People keep asking me if I am having more fun, being blonde, but I always have fun! Whether I'm blonde, redhead, or brunette! I always have fun.

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

Honestly, I just think we all have special gifts, everyone. You know, obviously, some are more noticeable than others and that's why there's the limelight. Everybody's in it.

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

The purpose of art is to create heavens to balance the world because there are so many hells in the world, there are wars, tortures and oppressions, there is unhappiness etc.

The past is never a mistake if you have learnt from it. I have learnt never to trust someone so much that it hurts your expectations.

By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'.

It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.

I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show.

How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.