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" I was 25 when my first husband walked out of the house and left me with a 10-month-old. And a house payment and a car payment. But suffice it to say I have a lot of love in my life. "

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" I wanted to do something that nobody else was doing. I didn't have a mentor. There were no other women on the radio. "

Delilah

Mentor

Women

Nobody

" I never in a million bazillion trillion years imagined that my life would have this many layers of love and richness. "

" If you're a parent, love your children. If you're married, honor your spouse instead of looking on the Internet for love in all the wrong places. I'm talking about real relationships, not false intimacies. "

" All this crap the church puts on you about divorce is just crap. You do the best that you can do, and when you can't do it, you can't do it. "

" Every single night, I try to get people to realize that love is what is most important, and that they need to use every opportunity given them to reach out in love. Schmaltzy and corny, I know, but it's true. "

" Songs say what our emotions can't. I love that about music. "

" Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God's borne out on you. "

" When someone is on the phone telling me a story, I'm hearing the soundtrack that goes with it. "

" Put the kids in a cool bath, then get them to bed, then light a candle. Do whatever you need to do to ease your troubled mind. "

" I think the saddest thing in the world will be for people who face their death and realize they never lived. That won't be me. "

Delilah

World

Think

" I have never once celebrated a Valentine's Day as a romantic holiday. For me, it's another opportunity to tell my kids or whoever how much I love them. I hang pink crepe paper and make heart-shaped pancakes! "

" Well, people can get advice almost anywhere, but they can't find a companion almost anywhere. And far more than being an advice-giver or somebody who just plays sappy love songs, I really am a companion on the radio at night. "

" Oddly enough, even though our show is structured around women, our target audience is women, I get more calls from men every night than women. "

" You know how most kids have posters of sports heroes on their walls? They gave me reams of the old news copy, and I had those taped in my bedroom. And I would practice reading the news. "

" I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written. "

" All the money you make, all the awards you win, all the plays you produce, all the things you accomplish - the only thing that will remain is the love and the relationships that are formed in your lifetime. "

" Everybody thinks I'm so nice because they hear me so nice at night. And I'm like, 'No, I'm just tired. I'm exhausted, OK?' "

" Like millions of parents, I chose to send my children to a religious school that shares my belief system, which is central to my life. I objected to changes in the school that, in my opinion, did not reflect that belief system. "

" The part that I loved about radio wasn't getting on the air - it was all this great stuff my listeners would tell me. "

Delilah

Radio

Loved

" We had an argument, and he told me to be home at midnight, and I said no. And so when I did come home, the door was locked. And I had gotten a set of luggage for graduation that day, and it was on the front porch, packed. He thought that he was going to prove a point and I was going to say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, Daddy, I'm sorry'. "

Delilah

Sorry

Thought

" It blows me away the number of truck drivers or macho guys that will call, and then I start peeling back the layers, and I find out they've been listening to me for 10 or 15 years, and they know every lyric to every sappy song. "

Delilah

Know

Listening

" After we air the call, it's gone. I always thought, 'What a waste.' That's such a powerful story, and there's no way to revisit it or share it. "

" I was attracted to the bad boys, the troublemakers. You know, the ones that were really cute but didn't come home. So I have a couple of failed marriages under my belt, but that's OK. "

" I buy very little of what's sold to me in the church. Very, very little. "

Delilah

Little

Buy

" I don't have any problems getting people to open up. "

" I have more love in my life than I ever dreamed or imagined. "

" It always cracks me up when program directors or music directors or companies will say, 'Well, we did research, and we interviewed 25 people in our focus group, and this is what they said.' And I'm like, 'I've talked to 25 people in two hours! I talk to 50, 60, 70 people a night! Five or six days a week!' "

" When I see people wasting their hours doing nothing productive, nothing to contribute to the world, nothing to build relationships, it makes me sad. Actually, it makes me mad. I want to scream, 'Wake up!'. "

Delilah

Sad

Doing

" It's what I do best - pry into people's business and mind their business. I can't help myself. I can't even go through the grocery line of the grocery store without talking to people and then giving them my opinion. "

" A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships. "