There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

Don't worry about hurting me, if that's what you're afraid of. I want to get hurt. At least I´ll feel something for a change.

Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.

The reason God never fails is because he fears to fail

I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring.

Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]

How embarrassing to be human.

Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.