Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

I stopped caring what people thought.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didnt have time to think.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventurous person. I don't look for change.

I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.

I'm going to need to save you.""Excuse me? No one needs-""I'm saving you, so shut up and be grateful.

The smallest drop of rain can project the most beautiful of visions, all we have to do is look a little deeper. -T.L. Manning

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.

There is no first strike in Karate.

I like to tell people that I finally found something I'm really good at, and that's retirement.

Of course Seattle loves soccer. You can see from the men's Seattle Sounders team.

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.