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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches."

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

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

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