I think when you mature, you realize that you really don't have to do anything you don't want to do or be represented in a way that doesn't suit you.

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.

When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."

I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.

We may look great on Instagram, but we're still lonely and depressed and anxiety-ridden. I hope, for the sake of our future generations, that our moral compass stays intact.

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

When you follow your heart, you always win and it feels so good.

Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.

I don't think the human effect [of climate change] is significant compared to the natural effect.

My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.

I will tell you the secret. God has had all there was of me.