Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.

On the superficiality of the industry: We are setting an example of what we think is beautiful and you really want to put that much make up on me?

Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.

At the end of the day I'm gonna be dead one day, and what people say about me is going what I accomplished and what I did in my life and how my children are. And I don't think it's gonna be what was printed in the tabloids this year.

I respect all religions. What I don't respect is when people use religion to attack others. I've met people across the world, in the middle of nowhere, who are just trying to survive and all they have is religion. In some why, it helps them, and I wouldn't take it away from them. There are also people who use to to hate and kill. I don't consider them religious people.

I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.