I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something’s been painted underneath it? That’s what I feel like – that part of the old is coming through the new.
Don’t mind if I fall apart. There’s more room in a broken heart.
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.
Worrying too much about other people’s ears and not my own, I lost my way.
You say we’ll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you’ll cage me on your shelf. I’ll never learn to be just me, first by myself.
The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
I’ve always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it’s better than when you don’t know who to fight.
I’ve gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I’ve gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.
We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.
Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it’s a dream that we can dance to.
You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don’t want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great – something where the residuals will go to the cause.
As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
Anticipation is making me late, it’s keeping me waiting.
I took it to heart that in order to be a good person; you never said anything mean about anybody.
Being in this business for as long as I’ve been in it, it’s sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.