I wanted to be in my daughter's life, and I decided I didn't want to do music anymore because I was compromising myself too much and I wasn't loving what I was doing.

Don't let the clothes or anyone define you...just be yourself whether in a pair of jeans or a ball gown.

Be true to yourself. Never compromise.

I enjoy just being around my family and my loved ones. It's just the simple things.

I'm going to ride the wave.

I'm a simple girl. I just like the simple things in life.

I'm just going to continue to do the music that I love.

I don't want to try to do music or satisfy anyone else's ears; it has to come from here first and what I love.

I'm a cheap date! I don't do what the average these days so.

I'm an easy date, as someone would say!

I'm chillin in my sweats and sneakers and t-shirt. I can do that all day.

Let us have no guiltLeft to wasteFor dreaming still.

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

...We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle... nor its price.

A day is a miniature eternity.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it

You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.

There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.

I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?