Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.

I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.

To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

If I'm in love I want to get married. That's how stupid I am.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers.

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

I felt no stigma whatsoever in becoming the third Mrs. Gifford.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.