Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.

I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.

Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.

From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.

In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.

I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

In America there's a saying that children should be seen and not heard, .. In Cambodia, children should not be seen nor heard because you would not survive.

I don't know what is behind the curtain

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.

The trouble is you think you have time.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

I never really want to repeat myself, obviously, but even if I do, it's because it is a choice.

Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.

I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.