After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"

I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.

Why do we love love when love seems to hate us?

The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician.

When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.

Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, That is out there.

As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.

I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that.

I'm not great with breathing, like holding notes. I usually don't. A lot of people wouldn't believe it, but I don't focus on technical stuff.

What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go.

Ask the Lord to reveal to you the reason why He created you

But then, even with cuts, bruises and blood all over him, he looked like his jackass self again."- Alex Gold

A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

I always say wear what makes you feel most confident, and confidence doesn't always come over night.

In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.

You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.

God chose Israel not because they were superior but because of what He could do through them for others.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.