“Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three”

My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.

I just remember really loving words and writing about anything I could, and the way I’d remember things, like my library card number, was to make a melody.

If I get writer’s block – this is going to sound funny – I take a shower. Something about the water feels like I’m cleaning my brain as well as my body.

I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.

I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what’s happening, it’s so much easier for us to write a song that’s specific to them.

I would give anything to hold your hands like this again.

We could be history in the making.

Still finding silly string in weird places.

I write songs for myself, but I never keep them. I’m like, ‘O.K., that was my therapy – it’s out of my body now. I’m going to give it to somebody else so it can be their therapy, too.’

Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.

There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.

It’s ingrained in people’s minds that it’s a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy.

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

Hula-hooping. It makes me feel free. My stepsister introduced me to it. I used to have panic attacks all the time, and she hula-hooped to cope with her own anxiety.

Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.

I think that women are afraid to be vulnerable because they think it makes them look weak.

Plant your love and let it grow.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.

If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.

Today I fulfill my creative side. I want to bloom wherever I am planted!

If you decide to plant a seed, commit to watering it.

A flower grows where it is planted but love grows everywhere.