If we own the story then we can write the ending.

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Walk on your own sacred path.

When we are telling people to depend on favor rather than qualification, we are actually preparing a ground for our country to collapse.

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.

I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

You know the block was ill as a youngster Every night it was like a, cop would get killed body found in the dumpster

There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

I try to update as much as possible. You don't want to be in the past.