The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really promoting?

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

I think patience is the best thing to try to embrace.

With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.

I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.

If I'm experiencing a different thing every day and seeing a new environment every day, it can create a different mood or different feeling.

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.

I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not in front of you yet because I'm too shy, but here's how I sound for now."

Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process.

Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.

Don't panic and lose hope even if there's a mountain in your pathtalk to the One who created the mountains.

Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul.

Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you're giving it all you have.

Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.

For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way.

My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.