“I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can’t manipulate fate.”

I think that if you don’t enjoy doing something you are not going to be good at it.

Celebration is life’s frosting: isn’t frosting the very best part of the cake?

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.

My business doesn’t keep me warm at night.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

I’m stronger than anything in my way. Holla!

I can’t just only be on reality TV and show everything when it’s the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

Life is hopefully long, so I don’t know what the future will bring.

You’re alone in your ideas, because you’re the only one who knows what’s possible.

I’m always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

Thinking about women who can’t have their own baby, even the first baby, I’m really lucky.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

My biggest ‘don’t’ from the past? Picking my face!

If I am not with my daughter, that’s when all my meetings happen. That’s when I get right on a plane. That’s when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it’s just all with her.

The world is certainty a sudden place.

And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn’t say the ones at my school were less capable. They could’ve been there.

The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.

I’m no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat.

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.

The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.

I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.