For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

Maybe I think you're cute and funny. Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, if you know what I mean.

I love you more than I could ever promise because you take me the way I am.

If you wait for someone else's hand, you will surely fall down.

When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.

I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.

Happy is the Heart that still feels Pain

Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.

I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.

All the broken hearts in the world still beat

If it takes lots of patience, sacrifice and devotion to achieve the thing you've desired, for sure you have set your targets high and you're going through immense pain to reach there.Just don't quit.

Building a prayer culture takes time. . . and relentless pressure over time. I often say that it is much more a crock pot than a microwave.

never would have said forever if i knew it wouldnt last

One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.

And then what?" "I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

The Union was destroyed against the will of the people, and it was done deliberately - with the participation of the Russian leadership, on the one hand, and that of the putschists, on the other.

People in communion liberate each other.

Intent and service-that is my motto.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.