I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.

My job as an artist is to present the material. My job as a woman is to receive from it what I need.

You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

At 21, you can live life with reckless abandon, as reckless as your abandon is. Then, at 30, there's something there are the supposed to be's. You're like, "I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm supposed to be doing that." You start measuring your life by what you think you're supposed to be doing. Having recently turned 40, it's like, "What the hell?! Why am I worried about what I'm supposed to be doing? What do I want to do?" You become fine with wherever the road takes you.

I do believe that we're all God's children.