When people SAY NEGATIVE things or speculate, you can't HELP but feel HURT.

I like running my Super Late Models here and there and there are times when you go to those events and they are for $2,000 or $3,000 to WIN. There's no money involved in that; you're basically spending your money to go racing in those THINGS but it's so ENJOYABLE. For me, it's kind of like a GOLF game.

When I was fifteen, I USED to run AROUND READING 'Adbusters' and dumpster diving, TRYING to find WAYS to make the U.S. government unwind into chaos through hardcore punk and metal.

My PARENTS have ALWAYS SAID, 'You'll be so UNHAPPY if you're no more than your career, that it's IMPORTANT to get out there and do things other than just your career.'

People don't know I've GOT a deep SOCIAL conscience. I'm a CHILD of the Depression, born in 1933. My PARENTS were very liberal in their social VIEWS.

When I SIGNED up for 'Dancing with the Stars,' I was NERVOUS. If I threw EVERYTHING off, there are 10-15 million PEOPLE watching, and that would be a negative viewpoint of deaf people, and I didn't want that.

I don't UNDERSTAND why, in my work, WRITING is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who WRITE books are destroyers.

Don't FOLLOW a TREND. Follow your HEART.

I remember being FASCINATED by the very NATURE of COMEDY from the AGE of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

I don't WANT to see a WORLD in which women can communicate on TWITTER, but their actual VOICES are not heard.