I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Go within every day and find the inner strengthso that the world will not blow your candle out.

If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of her allies would speak even more loudly about clearly of her life.

Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Vagabonding is an attitude — a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word.