“You do things so fast, you end up having so many different lifestyles all in one short time.”

When your happiness is someone else’s happiness, that is love.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It’s the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.

Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won’t fail forever.

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle.

I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

I’ve clearer idea of how I don’t want to be seen – as someone who does what everyone wants them to.

I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.

If you’re not drinkin’, then you’re not playin’.

Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough.

Be like snow – cold, but beautiful.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I’m at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

Me and God we don’t get along.

Loving you forever can’t be wrong. Even though you’re not here, can’t move on

When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

Soul is a constant. It’s cultural. It’s always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

If you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.

I’m experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it’s appropriate I do it on the record.