I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.

If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday tomorrow, go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!

God is in control and knowing that at the end of the day what happens - whether I'm comfortable with it or not or afraid of it or not - that God is in control.

I used to be so afraid to say what I really think.

I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have.

When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.

To be happy in life, develop at least four hobbies: one to bring you money, one to keep you healthy, one to bring you joy, and one to bring you peace.

Every single living thing is food to at least one living thing.

When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himself to the body's ecstasy.

Not all monsters are filled with darkness.

It takes a sour woman to make a good pickle.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an incentive to buy. Everybody loves a bargain.

Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure.