I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

The truth is... I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart... and I never really got it back.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.

I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.

When people get in your face and say, 'This will pass,' you think, Are they crazy? I'm never gonna feel any better than I feel right this minute and nothing's ever gonna make sense again... You see a lot of people play this blame game. Blame, blame, blame. You know? And it's a really easy thing to do, and I'm certainly guilty of it. [You have to] look at yourself and go, 'What part of this do I need to own? Which part of this is my responsibility?' And that's the painful work that you have to go through to hopefully get some real life knowledge out of it.

Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.