Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.