Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches.

When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.

My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

If we think about the world peace as much as we think about what to eat next time only for a month, peace will be there.

You're either self-appreciating or self-depreciating. There is no middle.

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

You know, I started out really hot out of the box. Then I've definitely had and up-and-down career. And when things started cooling off again, it frustrated me.

Stick choice should be every drummers first decision. Sticks are the liaison between you and your creative expression on the drums. Getting there the smoothest way is the reason I'm using Vater.