I felt that there was a beautiful story [ in "All We Had"] to be told and one that was valuable and also one that was a size that I could do as my first.

I’m not the easiest person to live with. I’m kind of a slob.

I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day.

I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together.

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.

Pretty, and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you're mean.

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.

I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring.

I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.

Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

Turn your loneliness into singing and praying, and you shall realize that you are never alone at all

There is a non-technical way to travel in time: Try to create religious generations in your country, then you will certainly travel back in time, into the old eras!

Your belief system should be positive and empowering enough to influence a strong mental state and a positive attitude that will rise up to defeat any suggestion that you are destined to fail.

Helios thought he looked pretty hot, and he had an annoying habit of calling the sun his "chick magnet.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth.

Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

I'm not a great singer

The West exploited Africa and now it wants to save it. We have been living with this hypocrisy for too long. Africa can only be saved by Africans.

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.