I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Sure, life as we know it is enough. But life as we don’t know it? That’s where the magic awaits. That’s where second chances abound.

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow.

If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.

And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.