Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

I live a normal life.

I think it's really important to live in the moment.

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

I'm a born-again atheist.

I am not too technical in my acting, and I feel when I get too technical it becomes unbelievable.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.

Taking delight in random encounters that come our way is a wonderful reminder that God is in control.

I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.

I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.