One, you moved here with your father, which means your a daddy's girl. No girl leaves their mother unless they are.

He perched the bat on his shoulder, giving a nod that he understood I needed his help. With one loud yell and a couple swings of the bat, he cleared me another path.

It would be the last thing he did if he beat my dog.

It was a little difficult to take him seriously when he sang along to a song about a woman taking another woman's man.

The moonlight caught the glint of his lip ring, which he was now fondling with the tip of his tongue as he stared down at me. It was a bit awkward.

Nona needs a very dry martini.

Nona I don't think your allowed to smoke in here.Nona exhaled a large cloud of smoke.Nona keeps their lights on. A little smoke won't hurt them.

Well, just get used to it, because you're a long ways away from Kansas, my dear. She actually started singing "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" as she traipsed to the counter.

I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me.

You know, Hope is also rather interesting, there's just not two of her, Dad teased Nona

Nona was as wacky as they came.

But we always avoided talking about these things—difficult things—and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.

I wouldn't be where I am without my fans, and I am very thankful for them.

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

I was doing stuff that for me was sort of more about playing real music.

What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me.

If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

There is no success without failure and losses.

Frank Sinatra told Floyd Paterson how he should whoop me. Frank Sinatra.

When I'm out there, I don't think about anything. I just grip it and rip it. I don't like to worry about technique.