When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.

I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.

I liked getting up at 4 in the morning, driving on the freeway, and going in and stocking shelves and laughing with the stock clerks.

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

I'm a Taurus. To the bone.

Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.