You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.

I want to push myself to be brave and out of my comfort zone, but I guess I stay in my comfort zone knowing I have my family close by.

I'm strong and I can do things that scare me. I can drive in the snow even though it terrifies me. I'm doing it all alone, I don't have a boyfriend, it was like, "I can do this."

For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.

The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.

[My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.

Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.

I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix.

I keep re-watching Friends. It's so dumb. There's so much good TV and I'm really into all of it.

We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us.

Never be afraid of the dark side of Vegas, the side the neon and glitter never seem to touch..

Everybody else cain't be wrong all the time. Sometimes it's gotta be you.

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

I'm at the stage in my pregnancy where I don't feel pregnant. You feel very, 'Oh yeah, I'm pregnant, ' because you're over the morning sickness and it's not too uncomfortable. It's fun.

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.