It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.

I'm still the same. That's why the fans love me. Because they need stability in the industry.

With all it's going through, we're very proud of our country.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

I think that if people show up in jeans and chains, it's great that all parts of culture are interested in music. People forget sometimes that it's about the music, not how you act and dress.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract.

You know those goals you've set for yourself, those dreams you've been waiting for the perfect time to live out? It's time!

To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.