“I think I started doing covers when I was… what, like 9 or 10?”

Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy… music is so helpful in that area of life.

Everything I wore was pink and sparkly. And I had an obsession with headbands. I felt like I rocked them, though!

I might not know who I was yesterday or who I’m going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.

When I’m recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I’m on set, I want to be making music.

I couldn’t really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.

When I was growing up, we went to Musikfest every year, and I have vivid memories of the corn on the cob.

Music is where I started. It’s kind of the base of everything.

I’ve never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be.

I’ve never had to fend for a child’s life, which sounds very terrifying.

I go through my comments sometimes, and I’ll just take snapshots of the terrible ones and send them to my friends.

It always feels good to put something you’re proud of out in the world.

I would always do the songs that I wanted to do and the songs that my parents wanted me to do.

Everybody has their own story – it’s who you are. If I wasn’t five-foot, I wouldn’t be who I am!

I approach everyday personal beauty very naturally; I try to make it look like I’m not wearing makeup.

You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn’t born with long legs – who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.

I always feel better after I post a cover. Even if it’s doing the little 15 second covers.

I want to be on the cover of ‘GQ.’ That’s a personal goal.

Another phenomenon developing in Kenya is ethnic cleansing – and that’s the thing that has made me very sad. Because some people will use the cover of the problems of rigged elections to do things that are unacceptable like ethnic cleansing and displacement of people. It’s completely unacceptable.

Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.

I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?

God’s canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil.

The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.