We are at that age that balances between independence and conferring with your friends about every miniscule decision you make. I've never liked that part of adolescence.

I think it's hard for you to fall in love because you like control, and you can't control what another person does or feels, so you keep all your cards.

I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I'm hurting. But isn't that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?

Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter.

Humans seek connection above all else, and we are willing to destroy things to attain it.

You shouldn't have to convince anyone to choose you. There is no real choice in love.

That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.

We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives controls us. People have less power than they think they do. It's just the reactions we control.

Don't make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.'

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

I believe the Universe is planned for good.

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.

Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.