I just prefer my fiction with more teeth.

You're not defeated when you lose a battle.You are defeated when you give up the struggle

Happiness requires the ultimate sacrifice: to give up one's unhappiness.

Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

Im not the type of artist thats like, Lets go out and party and dance your life away! I think those artists are so cool, but I wanted meaning in my songs and they have messages.

In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East, and we're not going to be divided along any lines.

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

At the end of the day, besides everything that I do, I'm still just a 20-year-old girl and a Texan, at that.

There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.