Pastoral Resources

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.

I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.

That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.