I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.

If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

My spiritual life is an interesting thing. It's pretty private. I was raised Catholic in the Baptist Bible belt, so my spirituality was challenged and very much a private thing and it continues to be.

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.