I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.

It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

Even if you're only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up's on and their eyes are popping - just ask Amy Winehouse!

Even talking, I'm super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There's no way I can fight it.

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

I'm a great believer in karma and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.

I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why.

I'm naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn't get through at least a pencil a month.

I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.

A researcher that has a brain that functions differently from their peers is at an advantage, as they can see things that the others cannot.

I show up knowing exactly who I was and never leave as myself.

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her

If I can save one person along the way, I'm okay. The trials and tribulations my special needs kids go through daily is far greater than the journey I'm about to go on.

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.