Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it’s sparse. There’s nothing that’s pretentious or planned. It’s just so gutsy.
Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.
I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don’t like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.
I’m not on good terms with any of my exes. That’s why we’re not together anymore. We’re not friends.
For people to link my music to their lives, it’s incredible, there’s no other feeling like it.
It’s strange how so much life can be lived without speaking.
Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I’ve mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.
When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
The past is for learning from and letting go. You can’t revisit it. It vanishes.
I’m beginning to grow into who I thought I might be.
The only way to get over the pain is to face it, embrace it, hug it and learn the lessons embedded within it.
I have found three ways of thinking that shift me out of a feeling of powerlessness: practicing gratitude, trust in the moment, and thinking about others.
Seeking out people and experiences we would normally avoid provides a fertile place to learn new things about ourselves and about life.
I think more often than not, we do know what to do; the cost of our realness just seems too high at the time.
Balance is like this. Spreading ourselves thin looks impressive, but in the end, we are the first to lose.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to be afraid without being paralyzed.
Feeling powerless leads to outward aggression in the form of frustration and anger, or withdrawal inward into depression and victimization.