I traveled all over the South looking for factories - to keep production in the South. I wanted to give back to the place and people that raised me.

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.

It angers me that a timed, planned and paid smearing campaign is run against me in the press.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

How dare you have wino tell me not to do drugs.

Repetition doesn't really exist

The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.

A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.

I got to fight every second, every minute and every round.