I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.

Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person.

I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun.

You've got to be fine with who you are.

I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.

I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.

French fries. I have been obsessed with them since I was born. I like big, big steak fries, curly fries, seasoned fries - any kind!

I can do a really high-pitched cartoon voice. Everybody always say they like that.

Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.

If I'm in a bad mood, my thing is I go clean! That's what relaxes me! I go and clean everything.

Kids look up to me, and it's really incredible to be in that position.

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.

Don't ever let someone tell you the value you don't have, in order to be in someone's life. That is often the value they feel you have, not that person.

Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.

If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.

I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad.

I write on scraps of paper. I do it every other day. I write about people's lives or how people look or my experiences. I'm very detailed - it's like a script.