I'm the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I'm old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn’t even know they had.

I live in the moment.

Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart.

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.