Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.

One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.

Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them.

Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.

Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.

Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.

There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.

The perplexity, the potential— God’s own crucible was not for angels.

I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you.

[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

In the existence of our lives, there are many coincidences that bring people together, but there's only one person that will own your heart forever.

Never hesitate to take what you think are small things to God; after all, EVERYTHING is small to God.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]

It's been hard. My mother is proud of me, but her reaction swings wildly from day to day. I don't really take her point of view. I'm hard on her. And that's hard to read.

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.