I'm really close to my family. As I get older, it's like they're the only people I really talk to.

I want to push myself to be brave and out of my comfort zone, but I guess I stay in my comfort zone knowing I have my family close by.

I'm strong and I can do things that scare me. I can drive in the snow even though it terrifies me. I'm doing it all alone, I don't have a boyfriend, it was like, "I can do this."

For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.

The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.

[My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.

Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.

I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix.

I keep re-watching Friends. It's so dumb. There's so much good TV and I'm really into all of it.

The Bible is God speaking to mankind. The more you read the Bible, the more you will hear God speaking to you.

My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us.

No one predicts the future. No one tries to.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully.

Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable.

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.

I prepare for the next fight and I train for that opponent. I'm thinking about Dan Henderson and not thinking about the championship.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.