“People magazine with a bag of sour cream and onion chips always makes be feel a bit trashy. But good trashy.”

The surest sign that you’re working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don’t complain very much about doing what it takes.

You will fail. At some point. More than once. Guaranteed. Proceed anyway.

Start leaving what you want to leave. Your future is waiting.

Someone you haven’t met yet is already dreaming of adoring you.

Passion will always move you in the direction of your authentic self.

Your curiosity is your growth point. Always.

Nobody can tell your story the way you can tell your story.

Almost any decision is better than no decision — just keep moving.

It’s not about the goal, it’s about how you want to feel when you get there.

Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love.

You don’t need to be burned out to go on hiatus.

Life balance is a myth. It’s an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it’s about proportion – it’s really a work hard/play hard equation.

If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

Words can make you sick. Or healed. – Words create worlds because the universe is always listening… and so are your cells, your psyche, and your children, your team, and the apples.

There’s a time and purpose for being lost. If you don’t judge the being lost you get through it sooner.

There is nothing as easy as being inspired.

Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.

I am the kind of tired that does not need a bed but rather, hope.

I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.

It feels like I’ve been singing since I was born, and I have so many great memories with my family and friends centred around music.

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.

It’s not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That’s life. I have feelings.