Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great; it just isn't how I do things.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.

Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.

My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

Nothing's better than a picnic.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world.

After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside.

I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Yet who shall shut out Fate?

Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

The wise man never loses his temper.

I don't see why anybody should worry.