The thing about Christmas music is the recognizability. It's great.

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.

Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

Greed is the fast-track to poverty.

Don't condemn what you can't comprehend

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.

It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.

Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward.

Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?' Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.

We are turning our grief into winnable actions.

Remain quiet. Don't feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty.

I live in a 9 million dollar turd.