Because I'm your mother, that's why.

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

Love makes us such fools.

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.

The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.

We live with the key purpose of receiving the approval of those around us because we don’t know who we are in reality

Each person walks a journey unique to himself or herself. Live your own journey and run your own race.

Comfort is key. I need to make sure the cleat first my foot perfectly. Weight is important, too.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

Okay then. The destiny didn't work with the Chosen One. So I'll do it instead.

It feels so good to tell the truth.

If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.