If kids cook with you and participate with you, to me that makes them more apt to eat the food. They feel like they made the dish; they want to taste it. It's special, It's an effort.

I need a man that's comfortable in his skin and not threatened by a woman with a big personality.

For me, being a public persona, I was always wondering, 'Was a man dating me for who I was? Was there an agenda? Did he want to be seen with me? Am I arm candy?'

Skillet corn bread has always been my go-to-comfort food, and my mom used to make it for me as a treat when I was younger. I do this for my girls now whenever I think they need a little love.

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.