American Quotes

We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music

The country crowd just has fun.

My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.

I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we h

That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.

Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

No, I don't belong to a retirement community.

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.

It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.

I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond.

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.

We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive.

Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing.