Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker." "What are you going to motivate people to do?" Smile st….

After I became confident in Him it didn't matter what anyone said because I was confident in something and someone way bigger than myself..

If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level..

I have not been recognized..

I am not the we of anyone.

Live in the precious present..

I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing..

You can't escape from what you are..

I always sang, I always acted, I always played..

I would like to do some musicals..

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts..

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know.

I have seen the future, and it works..

I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more..

Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political st….

There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free..

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently..

Bette Midler can say four-letter words and make you love it..

It's not how you start, but it's how you finish..

Music to me is life. It's what gets me going..