I'm pretty proud of my pie crust. I think I've finally learned how to manhandle it just enough.

I'm lucky to be alive. It's a blessing to tell my story, you know.

There's a brain chemistry - the floatiness and the disassociation and all the things that came with starving - I became addicted to.

There are certain shows or people that I would love to work with. One of the greatest things about our business is that if you get to fan out on people you might actually get to meet.

I've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.

I had been anorexic for about five years. And I was really sick. I probably weighed about 70 pounds.

I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very important to me that people liked me. Over the years, observing other showrunners who made work that I so admired, I realized that that had to go. This couldn't be my first priority. My first priority had to be the work.

Eating disorders are A) not fun at parties, and B) they're not very fun in movies.

When people are like, ''UnREAL' is so dark,' I'm like, 'Hahahahahahahahahaha! Wait 'til you get to 'Sharp Objects.''

I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.

I think we're in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.

Scenes on phones are really boring!

Too many people will die needlessly if we go back to letting people buy junk insurance or insurance that doesn't help people with diseases related to mental illness.

'Just' writing is every bit as important as any other creative part of a film.

On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'

I'm such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I'd go crazy and try to organize the vacation resort!

The dream of doing what I do started with watching movies by Mr. Spielberg, like 'Close Encounters,' 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' That was the beginning of my obsession.

I certainly often go to a movie and don't remember exactly what the trailer had in it, except that it looked cool.

I love being in a public space where teenagers are talking. And the funny thing is that it hasn't changed that much. There's certainly slang that I'm not familiar with, but among the average teen, it's still the same.

I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.

The truth is there's a difference between the competition shows where you're testing skills and the type of shows where you're trying to create drama.

The best feeling you can ever have when you're working on a show is that the characters are still inside you, and they have a lot left to do.

Women want to watch the dark stuff.

Not proud. But I watched 'The Bachelor' only once, and I really felt, after that experience, that I could never do it again. I felt it was so morally compromising, as a woman.

You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.

The older I get the more laid back I am about whatever happens, happens.

I was born with great eyelashes. They just do what I want them to do.

What I've learned and all of us have learned is: You can't force art, and there's no way you could force somebody to do something that they didn't want to do in this line of work.

Costumes are great. That kind of effort tells the audience that the performer has taken the time to be the total package.

You've got to live your life first and do your job second.

We started to overthink things in the Dixie Chicks and do things we thought people wanted us to do.

When I look back at some of the Chicks stuff, it's the early stuff we did where we kind of giggle and go, 'You know what? Those were the good old days.'

I couldn't imagine that my career could have contributed to the demise of my marriage, but I do think neither of us realized that when you spend 60 to 70 days a year face-to-face, no marriage is going to survive. No relationship is going to survive.

We've had a lot of controversy in our career, and it's never been intentional.

When we were unknown, you don't get a lot of bad feedback. Now, we get people bad-mouthing us all the time, but it's all part of the game.

We have an older sister who gets pregnant easily. So Emily and I think there may be an environmental cause for our problems. Neither of us were very old when we started trying. But we've lived very parallel lives. We've been in a band together since I was 12 and she was 10. We can't help but wonder, did we stay in a hotel near a power plant?

I am a really passive person to begin with so I have written a lot of pretty crappy songs with strangers because I let it go in a direction that I didn't feel it should have and I didn't know them well enough to speak up.

I feel like Court Yard Hounds keeps us idling. I think Emily and I function better when we're continually making music and playing, and this is a way to keep doing that.

Songwriting is such a personal thing and it's hard to be in a room with somebody you don't know and trust.

I play a little acoustic bass and a little guitar. In our house there are instruments everywhere, and I love picking them up and just noodling around. I pick up my husband's tin whistle sometimes. He's really proficient, but it's about the second most annoying instrument - after the banjo - if you don't know how to play it.

I'll be very content if I never play 'Devil Went Down to Georgia' again.

My closet CD that I don't admit that I really listen to is Celine Dion. My husband's sister passed away in a car accident, and she was a huge Celine Dion fan. 'It's All Coming Back to Me Now' was her favorite song, so that's kind of my guilty pleasure.

I'm such a worrier.

At the Grammys, how many performances were with women playing instruments? Is it still surprising that a female can play an instrument proficiently?

I'm such an introvert.

I'm amazed when I hear my daughters with their friends. They'll just talk openly about, 'Yeah, he used to be a girl and now he's a boy.' It gives me a lot of hope... It's so matters of fact. It's like they're saying blue and yellow make green. I love that.

We spent three years of active trying before we went to IVF. First I went on Clomid. Then I had some dye tests and found I had a collapsed tube, so I had laparoscopic surgery; the tube wasn't blocked, just spasming.

I really have aproblem with the fact that insurance companies don't see infertility as a medical condition requiring coverage. I do want there to be some pressure on the insurance companies.

It's such a strong drive for women, knowing you were meant to be a mom. We would have gone into debt, done whatever, exhausted all the options, to get there. But a lot of women have to give up on that dream because they can't afford it.