The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.

It's hard to escape when your hobby is your job.

Sexiness isn't being young, hot and wearing a bikini. It's being powerful and feeling like you belong in your skin and it feels good.

You don’t have to feel safe to feel unafraid.

Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone, before you know it you end up perfectly on your own.

You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. Because if you stay in your comfort zone, you would never do the things that you need to do.

Try your hand at everything. Figure out what your space in the world is and take it. Then you can let other people in who will celebrate that about you, not try to turn you into something else.

To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary.

You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.

No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.

It’s not about trying to change the world, it’s about trying to not be changed by it

Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction

When you are on a down swing, do not feel bad. Know the swing will change and things will get better.There are good times coming.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

See, I dont know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.

One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research.

Nuance doesn't get retweeted.

I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

Sometimes we have to wait a long time to see conversions.

Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.