“Find out what your gift is and nurture it.”

My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky.

I say what I think. I’m a real person, not some manufactured pop tart who’s afraid to step out of the hotel room. I am flawed. I swear I have the occasional cocktail, I pick my nose and I fart. I’m not running for any presidential campaign at the moment. I’m a sassy girl.

I went from zero to my own hero.

I like to go out there looking like a strong woman because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows.

Throw your stick and stones, throw your bombs and your blows, but you’re not gonna break my soul.

Be yourself and you can be anything.

If you can believe in something great, then you can achieve something great.

A lot of the time people don’t even know what they want until they see something new.

It can be the most difficult thing to do, but love conquers fear and love conquers hate and this love that you choose will give you strength and it’s our greatest power.

It’s always been inside of you and now it’s time to let it through.

I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

I was like, I don’t know if I can hold that promise [to wait until marriage to have sex] because this guy at camp is really cute. Sex wasn’t talked about in my home, but I was a very curious young girl.

After a hurricane, comes a rainbow.

I’ve done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

I’m either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That’s the kind of world I live in. It’s very sort of flamboyant, and that’s the kind of way I write. I love it.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.