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

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

But stupid things have a gravity and a momentum of their own

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

I would like to help my people in any way I can. It's difficult times in Pakistan and we all have to help.

Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.

Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.