Quotes from Jessica Simpson

Is this okay?" I asked the crew. They smiled. "You be you, Jessica," If I was me being me, I would have said no to going camping. But I guess they had enough footage of us sitting on the couch, so a-camping we will go.

Stephanie and I went to a weekend discipleship retreat, Firefall, in the beginning of February, and all I could talk about was what Jason and I were going to do for Valentine's Day. "Do you think he is going to kiss you?" she asked as I applied a light blush. The look I was going for was sexy but saved. Come hither but leave room for the Lord.

Give a girl an insult, she'll feel bad for a day, but teach a girl to hate her body and she'll feel bad forever.

The Walmart had expected five hundred people. Five thousand showed up. Walmart called the police and cancelled the event because there was too much of a chance for danger. Jessica Simpson: Menace to Society. Afterward, we called basically everybody we knew to tell them. The funny thing was that nobody believed us.

Who was I if I had no one to blame for my life but myself?

I couldn't believe my good fortune. I don't think Nick could either. In countless interviews, people asked him in front of me if he was jealous. "Her success is my success," he said again and again, so convincingly that even I almost believed him.

As we made our way to the house, I could barely talk. I got Dad talking about the new car and his photography hobby and business, which he could talk about for hours. It was how I negotiated a lot of conversations with people at that time. I listened to every word, but only chimed in now and again to keep them going.

But I can tell you that plastic surgery does not cure what's inside.

was truly happy, and at least for that moment, no man could take that from me.

Ozzy Osbourne had it built when he lived there before me. He was so sweet, but let's just say we have a different design aesthetic. The studio was all black and scary when I moved in. I made it mine, lightening the room and overlapping pretty rugs to create a sound cocoon.

is where all the tools are," I said to

This afternoon my husband Eric set big drop cloths in the backyard as an activity for them. He's done this for years, laying out paints and brushes so they can have at it. He says it's like therapy. A way to get out all your emotions. I panicked the first time I saw them throwing paint.

I just feel like I'm going through so many changes," I said to Johnny one night over scotch. "It's hard." "Nah, change is easy," he said. "Staying the same is a lot harder on you.

But to me, an emotional affair was worse than a physical one. It's funny, I know, because I had placed such an emphasis on sex by not having it before marriage. After I actually had sex, I understood that the emotional part was what mattered. And Johnny and I had that, which seemed far more of a betrayal to my marriage than sex.

Price of Beauty

It was like I was in an SNL sketch about the over-singing pop-star mom.

I beat myself up enough with this fight club in my head that I know what can happen if I invite new members.

The car I drove at a hundred miles per hour was out of control with the steering wheel locked, and I could only turn to the passengers and say, "Well, this is bad.

The therapist came and hesitated in the doorway like the exorcist coming to cast out the demons.

When my dad returned to preaching, I thought we moved because God would tell my dad it was time to move. He studied to be an adolescent therapist, learning how to reach that brain. Because he was such a good storyteller, he could tug at the heart, too. He'd make people weep, holding up their hands as they listened to him share the Word in a way they had never heard. Even as a kid I could feel the energy of change in the room when my dad was working.

For the next two years, singing was the only time I didn't stutter. I sang for everything I wanted, like some Disney princess making a wish.

In the Baptist faith, you choose to be baptized when you are ready. It's for believers only, and it's up to you. You don't just baptize an infant and make the decision for them, which is kind of cool because for a religion that can be painted as so confining, individual choice is a fundamental part of being Baptist.

Now, anybody who's seen me sing or even tell a joke knows I have the facial expressions of Jim Carrey.

The people I want to focus on are Lesa, who was kind to me and went on to become a successful therapist, and you. If you are being bullied, whether it's because you're gay or someone decides they don't like something about you, let me be the Lesa who says, "I see you." You are perfectly made.