Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.

I am lucky enough to be married to a guy who tells me I look beautiful every day.

When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

I love telling stories. When people interview me live I'm totally forthcoming about stories like that - as long as it's not going to be in print or recorded. It's just for whoever's in the audience. It's always been for me kind of fun and then everyone walks out of there, "She told this story about da da da" but nobody can prove it.

You've got the whole civil rights movements emanating from the south, you've got the music that came out of the south that is the core of our current music, so for me that thinking comes out of having Dukes of Hazzard thrown in your face: that the south is a bunch of twangy people that I can't understand. So this is, hopefully, part of the movement to restore the south to its proper and rightful place in our nation... which is huge and pervasive. It's not about Texas - I'm not saying Texas doesn't have it's own unique history - but the south has this at its core.