I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

Knowing your strengths is intelligence

A Speechmaker's Prayer: "Let each word of mine be tender and sweet, Just in case someone might make me eat it.

Fear no one except the One.

Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.

Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.

One thing always sure. Life go on with you or without you, no matter how much you seen.

Let us never forget this, he is pure mercy, let us go to Jesus!

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

I was annoyed and I was crying [her honest reaction to losing a tennis match at the US Open]

Today at least I live in a better place