Our Scripture awakened that most glorious of things, the spontaneous love our Lord so desires His children to bear Him, for it is what He bears them.

The dream that wakened me pushed at the veil of consciousness but could not burst through, and I was left wondering what I had known just a moment before.

I remember three years ago looking into the entrance pool of Julia’s stately domus and finding I was beautiful.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

LIFE=UNCONDITIONAL LOVEIf you can feel this equation. I said IF you can FEEL this equation you can solve any mystery of life..

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

I really love that I'm giving myself the opportunity finally to not have the pressure of every single song you do having to be "political" or whatever. I'm just making what I wanna make.

You can't live wrong and pray right.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.