"We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do."

"Faith is important to me."

"I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other."

"It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things."

"It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record."

"Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both."

"I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic."

"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."