As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.

I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.

Why do we love love when love seems to hate us?

The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician.

When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"

Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, That is out there.

I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that.

I'm not great with breathing, like holding notes. I usually don't. A lot of people wouldn't believe it, but I don't focus on technical stuff.

What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go.

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want.

I will not calm down!

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.