The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do.

I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my sister's handwriting. And I feel like - sometimes I feel that way for my voice.

I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.

I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish it were more rough than it is.

I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.

I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.

I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.

It takes me a lot of time, and it's almost frustrating for the guys sometimes because they're waiting for a new song. And I - it's just so important for me to get the perfect, exact, right song.

I love having to attend the one class that is being taught by a professor who feels that their class is the only class being taught at the University and gives nothing but busy work.

I know you haven't made your mind up yet But I would never do you wrong I've known it from the moment that we met No doubt in my mind where you belong

I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.

[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?

If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.