Quotes

I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.

I'm content with life, and I'm finally at that place where I feel relaxed and can really enjoy what's going on around me.

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.

I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.

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.

Since 'Flip or Flop' aired in 2013, people really weren't asking me, like, 'Hey, what paint color is that?' or, 'Where'd you get that cabinet?' It was more, 'How do you stay healthy? How do you balance work life with the kids? What are you eating during the day?'

For me, my nutrition routine is a way of life, and I have so much energy when I exercise and eat a healthy balanced diet.

Ant is like a big kid and life feels so much more positive with him in it. He really helps ground me.

Things definitely get easier with time... I think that's true in most aspects of life.

Life has a funny way of letting things fall into place when you least expect it.

I don't really sweat the small stuff at all and I just feel like I'm more patient. It's probably just a combination of age and being through a bunch of stuff in my life.

Everyone's lifestyle is different.

I have talked to women who do yoga, who are vegan, who have never smoked and/or never drank a day in their life, but they have Stage IV breast cancer. So you do what you can to be as healthy as you can if you know you're high-risk because yes, all those things can factor into that. But sometimes it's just a fluke.

I used to be a stressed-out person. I'm not anymore. I try to find the lining in everything in life.

I guess I've kind of had an attitude my whole life.

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.

I've been telling everyone for weeks now about how I get to play Lois Lane. It's a big deal. There are a few characters throughout your life which everyone knows and this is one of them. I can't wait.

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

I do love pears. All types of pears. Not too firm, not too soft; they have to be at the right time of their life.