I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting.

Our challenges make us unique, and how we deal with them makes us unique.

As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.

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

Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

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.