“When I moved out of my mom’s house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.”

I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile.

My mother and our pastor always said you have to pray for your enemies and people who do you wrong, and that’s what I did.

Motherhood, building character one day at a time.

I went from broke and homeless sleeping on couches. I couldn’t even figure out what I was doing in Los Angeles. Now, I’m paying my own bills. I’m about to move my mama in with me at 19. I’m on tour now, and this is all off of one mixtape.

My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.

My momma wasn’t a weak person and she wasn’t a complainer. So I don’t wanna be like that.

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.

The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.

Let’s learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.