You will never know who you truly are until you can find a quiet place to sit and think. A place where you can get lost in hopes of finding yourself

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.

No one has ever needed me before because I’ve never let anyone that far in.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.

Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

I will never leave you for I am intertwined in the fabric of you're being and my life blood's essence pulsates through your'e veins.

Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

Crooked Hillary [Clinton] also wants a 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees to pour into our country .

If you believe in God you get to the point where (you feel) "Yeah, you know what, God forgave my sins but I still have to forgive myself."

Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer.

No problem, Goth Boy. First one's free.

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

There is so much more to me than my parts and what I wear, what my clothes are.

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

My body is a reflection of how grateful I am for my life and my health; there are a lot of people less fortunate than me.