My worst vice is also my best vice. It's my empathy and my love for people-it can wear me out. I rarely can turn a person in need down or because I love people, I love energy.

I believe you can remember the future as much as the past

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.

I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does.

My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

You don't realize 'till you get here what a moment in history you're a part of.

Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.

I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.

Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.

I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.

I believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly.

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.

The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.