I've been a performer in the public eye for many years now and it's much darker. It feels so worse now. It feels heavy; it's difficult to deal with. The hatred is unbelievable, but I actually feel a lot more compassion for the journalists and people who aren't used to that. At least on some level, it's been a part of my world for a long time, so I can handle it. I'm not going to say that I'm used to it, because I'm not. I think it's really difficult for people who are just doing journalism and receiving death threats on a very consistent basis.

More people need to inhabit this world.

It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

I want to get a gold star. And I know that there are places that I need to go in order to get the story right. I'd rather do it right than have to do it twice.

You've got to have gumption. You've got to be willing to stand up on the stage for no money for ten years.

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.