“I feel more like I’m a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.”

The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.

I’d rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I’m not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.

I’m a very caring person.

All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!

Quiet moments recharge me.

I think we deserve people who really, really love us.

Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.

Even if your family isn’t quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.

I’m not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I’m thick. I like my body.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.

I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.

Even if you’re the best singer in the world, there’s a good chance no one will ever hear you.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

If you ever dreamed of playing for millions around the world, now is your chance.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

It’s a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.