I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

The best writing speaks when the heart whispers.

He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house.

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?

Anybody who tries to change society without first examining the family, is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

the beauty of doing nothing

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.