I can’t not write, if I don’t then I get really depressed.
I didn’t want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they’ve missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.
I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.
I find as an artist if I’m not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.
When I pray, I’m just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that’s where I go.
And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.
I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I’m going to just keep going.
They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.
I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.
How about not equating death with stopping?
America’s a very traumatized society.
I never regret anything I do. It’s part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.
When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it’s triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about – which I see as a positive thing.
Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.
I hope that there is a very confused 14 year old girl out there who hears me speak or hears me sing and derives some sort of strength from that I heard that when I was 14 that’s exactly what happened.
I firmly believe that the only reason why I’m on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it’s my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything’s okay and everything’s going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything’s gone wrong and everything blows up In your face.
Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who’s a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.
If someone hates or loves something, then right on. I can’t rob them of that. I’m not going to try and change their mind. Something’s been triggered in them to react so emotionally.
I’m saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.