"Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good."

"They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love."

"My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure."

"Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table."

"L.A.'s cool I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor."

"My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."

"I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart."

"Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death."