I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.
I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it ...
I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.
The things you fear are undefeatable not by their nature but by your approach
Well in case you failed to notice, In case you failed to see, This is my heart bleeding before you, This is me down on my knees These foolish games are tearing me apart Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart You're breaking my heart
The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.
It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.
Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.
It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.
On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.
You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.
I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.
Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.
I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
I'm trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.
