Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

I love New Orleans I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels.

I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting...'

If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what life is about.

I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right way.

People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn't know was that the hostess made sure every morsel placed in front of them was pure and without anything artificial, no matter what the cost.