I think patience is the best thing to try to embrace.

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.

I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.

If I'm experiencing a different thing every day and seeing a new environment every day, it can create a different mood or different feeling.

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.

I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not in front of you yet because I'm too shy, but here's how I sound for now."

The fact that I'm getting appreciated and praised alone is a crazy moment because I never thought it would happen.

If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.

Our worth comes from the promises we keep.

Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me.

Get good live and get a following because that's what people notice.

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

But there's a bigger trend I'm seeing: people who used to enjoy blogging their lives are now moving to Twitter.

The only people who know about me are people who would know about me.