The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.

We choose how enthusiastically we live our time alive.

Doesn’t matter if you fail to succeed. What matters is, if you fail to try.

I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

Now you know I’m a reporter, so you might as well answer my question truthfully, or I’ll just keep asking it until you lose your mind. (Susan)

The art of illusion is grace itself.

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.