Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!

Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement.

You want to spend time with your children even though you are tired so you do all those things.

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with.

I don't want to be someone's entertainment.

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.

They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.