Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

People cannot turn you into a foot mat if you clearly know your true self-worth.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

There are lots more people in the House. I don't know exactly - I've never counted, but at least a couple hundred.

Laying on the floor and listening to music might be all the therapy that you need.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Theres a woman in Arkansas that's such a bad cook, that a swarm of flies got together and repaired her screen door.

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

My prayers are just an outpouring of gratitude for the assurance of that most completely desired Will of God, which will seem all the more desirable in all that is ahead.

People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.