Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The only time I ever appeared in the Enquirer was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I’m not much of a wild child.

I'm so grateful that I'm able to do something about this passion that I have for shelter animals. In a strange way, it completes me. It means so much to me and makes me feel like I'm truly making a difference.

I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.