I don't want to discount the beautiful work that the fashion houses do, but somehow, just focusing on what you're wearing feels reductive.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Confidence is everything in this business.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

She has fought many wars, most internal. The ones that you battle alone, for this, she is remarkable. She is a survivor.

History is yet to show us a person who stumbled across happiness while walking on the negative path.

What kind of God do you believe in? my answer is easy: I believe in a magnificent God

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.

I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, "I am making a Faust album." That didn't translate.

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.

Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.