You go through so much with the heartache, the pain, the nonsense, the games, and it's easy to lose sight of the possibility of love.

There are a lot of things that come easy, but they're not necessarily worth it. Anything worth having, you work hard for. That's how I feel I am.

There are no one dimensional people.

Musically, I think I change music like I change clothes! What I listen to on a day to day basis is really contingent upon my mood and what's going on in my life.

People can say whatever they want about whatever they want.

When you're used to making your money a certain way, especially when you fall in love with the way you're doing it, going back to pursue your true passion can be kind of nerve wracking.

A lot of times people have you pegged for what you are, and that's what you are and need to stay in. Going from an actress into my true passion for other people, it may seem kind of backwards.

I think I'm a dime, I think I'm amazing, I think I'm blessed and a blessing to whoever gets me next. I think that person has to understand that because that's the way I'm going to treat them as well.

I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I really want to say. That's super important to me.

I think music is such an extension of who we are, and the fact that I've gone through as much as I have, good, bad, and ugly, has really helped to shape the songs that I picked.

I think that as women sometimes, we put ourselves secondary because we kind of lose ourselves and the part of us that makes us awesome.

A heart grows flat and stale from too much thinking.

Don't eat till you're full, eat till you're tired.

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial.

Margot [Hentoff] dislikes Bill Clinton because he's totally untrustworthy, and you really ought to have some faith in whoever's going to be your president.

When I play a part, I never think about likability.

If you miss Christ you miss everything, and if you have Christ you have everything.

High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.