“I’m very inspired by past music.”

So whoever wants to come and get part of that lifestyle, we accept anybody.

Female performers have been doing this for years – pushing the envelope about sexuality – and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

I don’t think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I’m gay.

Obviously when you are doing a recording, things aren’t gonna translate as over-the-top.

I definitely have my opinions that I’m very vocal about and I’m not afraid to put them out there.

My first album was completed in three months.

That become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are.

I’m so happy to be in a committed relationship.

I’m a freak in the fondest way possible.

lf. I wasn’t going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

You can march to your own beat. It’s so hard sometimes in our country because conformity is the way things are pushed.

There’s no regrets for me.

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don’t have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good.

After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.

I just talk a lot, that’s the problem.

Wait a minute, I’m a fan of yours; you can’t be a fan of mine!

If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

For some reason I seem to absorb the landscape and cultures where I am planted. A State Divided Symphony was inspired by the 150th anniversary of Missouri’s entry into the Civil War.

Be inspired but not proud.

So we can feel grateful for what we have been given. Sadness soon disappears and, in return, we get inspired to bless others.

I’ve always been inspired by beautiful interiors.

And that’s ok and I think that I should be inspired by that to know that it’s time to move on.

Instead she inspired people to listen and then act, and to me thats the hallmark of a true leader.

That’s more the kind of thing that get us inspired.