Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not.
Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home.
Suffering is everywhere. Don’t ever think it isn’t. So are miracles. Don’t ever think they aren’t.
Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.
If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we’re all OK.
We must demand more not from each other, but more from ourselves.
You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.
I’m having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone’s got to pay. I’m afraid that I can’t satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you’re gonna take the fall. You’re so shallow.
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there’s really nothing to lose. There’s no wrong you can’t make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There’s no bounds.
I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.
I find you get out of people what you put into them.
I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.
I guess I’m a Gemini through and through, but I’m mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.
I love touring – I don’t do it as often as I should.
I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
I was Renee Zellweger’s fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.
I’ve always been a workhorse, and I’ve been supporting myself since I was 15.
I’ve always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, ‘How odd that I’m doing a record before a book of poetry,’
Sharing lets us feel less isolated and puts us on a path of being connected. At the end of the day, that’s what we all want.