[Songs] have to be a part of you. They have to be in your DNA. That's how I approached it.

Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day.

I'm an actress and a singer and I'm also a Christian. We're not all crazy right-wingers. I just want to be like Jesus, forgiving and loving and nonjudgmental, accepting of everyone even if they don't agree.

I'm sick of people who've never been to church telling me that church is full of hypocrites, and people who've never read the Bible telling me that it's baloney.

New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.

I get joy, and actually, a high... by putting a quarter in a meter.

Norman, Okla. That's where my folks live, so it's home to me.