My songs are just little letters to me.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

It is in opposing the world’s lies that we impose truth in our hearts.

It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br

Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

I think we need equal wages which are living wages.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

At one level it's clear that the dam has broken. There's an inevitable move to use the Internet as a distribution medium and that's not going to stop.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite

Weight control does have to be for a lifetime or you'll be yo-yoing.