When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom..

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it..

What's meant to be will always find a way..

I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan and I'm still not..

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie..

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food..

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it..

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera..

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. The new ones are exciting because they're fre….

You start out playing in kitchens, and you end up playing in kitchens..

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model..

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day..

The most important thing I want to get across is that maintaining weight loss is just hard. It takes a dedication to exercise and eating right most o….

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad..

When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else..

I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find..

It's for balance, if you want to do that. But the truth is that we all know how we're supposed to eat. And so if you have fried chicken and mashed po….

'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work..

I always want to sing, but I don't always want to be trying to have #1 records. I don't think you can do it forever. I don't know what the time span ….

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun..

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an ….