When I began to read, I began to exist.

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. ….

You dig in and you find something..

I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves.

Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom..

Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to..

Find your center and stay there..

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, you don't build that..

Because I loved myself, I was loved..

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and contin….

I have inhaled, exhaled everything..

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially..

Love everybody, serve everybody..

To dance is to live!.

He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too.

I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor….

We've got to change our regulatory system..

I've never been fired in my life..

I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971..

I'm constantly on the go..

It's always about the music, never about anything else..