“My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.”

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

Everything you want to be, you already are. You’re simply on the path to discovering it.

I’ve been able to find a lot of what I’ve not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It’s empowering to find those things.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you’d better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that’s going to shape them. They are going to become you.

There’s something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.

You could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn’t mean much without family.

I’m very happy with my body.

I believe if you can find something to give back to, your soul will feel fulfilled in a very powerful way.

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I’m able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I’m able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

I’d rather not have anything than be a liar.

Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.

Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can’t fail.

Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly

Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back.

I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it’s hard to hear sometimes, because it’s a noisy world and there’s a lot of people talking to you.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I’m discovering who I am.

It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.

If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.

We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.

But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

A space where the conversation surrounding the issues in our country is offering a seat at the table to all the voices to be heard, a murder mystery, and grassroots look at our own humanity as we move through the parts and pieces of the story.

But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.