I think men are still attracted to what they've always found attractive, which is a woman who is feminine, soft, real, and . . . womanly.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist

It’s not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

Why not show off if you've got something to show?

It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas. It's not witchcrafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale

I've gotten to do a lot of weird stuff.

I prefer to remain mysterious and have people MAKE their own judgment calls about me than to always have to EXPLAIN who I am and what I’m about.

I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn't in costume, or if they were they were little bunnies or something, and I went as Michael Jackson.

Crows follow me wherever I go.

Project: Potential was a separate class that the gifted students went to for an hour each day. The name was supposed to make it exciting, like Code Name: Cursive or Mission: State Capitals.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

Anecdotes came with his DNA.

Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

You have to believe in yourself, that you're gonna succeed.

…you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind.

I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.