“As I slipped back into celebrity land [by being on TV’s “The View”] the tasks multiplied a thousandfold, and the letters addressed to me but having nothing to do with the real me – the mother me, the married me, the friend me – the letters addressed to the celebrity me began to pour in again. ... I had gone four years living alone and now my mailbox was overflowing and people were telling me I was fantastic, the funniest, the happiest, the brightest. [Then there] is a shift that happens in the head and that very few celebrities will ever really speak about. ... One begins to believe in the specialness, and a dangerous sense of entitlement takes over. ... When celebrity addiction starts, you become impatient with, and even angry at necessary obstacles. You think you could run a red light or two. And then you do.”

“I wanted to let you know that I will no longer be on “The View” tomorrow as scheduled. I had made a request that I be interviewed by Joy, Barbara or Whoopi, but not Elisabeth Hasselback. Unfortunately, the show was not willing to accommodate this simple request so I bowed out. It’s really too bad because I’ve always been a big supporter of the show, but I cannot compromise my beliefs. The good news is that I will be on a whole slew of other shows promoting the new album so I hope you can catch me on those.”

“If anyone had told us, as we scrambled around on someone’s living room floor, surrounded by posters, that the signs we were making would some day be in the Smithsonian collection, along with one of Thomas Jefferson’s desks, we would have thought he was insane.”