I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.

I want to push myself to be brave and out of my comfort zone, but I guess I stay in my comfort zone knowing I have my family close by.

I'm strong and I can do things that scare me. I can drive in the snow even though it terrifies me. I'm doing it all alone, I don't have a boyfriend, it was like, "I can do this."

For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.

The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.

[My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.

Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.

I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix.

I keep re-watching Friends. It's so dumb. There's so much good TV and I'm really into all of it.

There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US - from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good.

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

What firefighters, and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do, basically these people say "I'm going to protect all these strangers."

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

Forget anything after, the 1986 Turbo cars really were rockets, and to handle them I really think you had to be a man

Cajun culture is dying.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.