It’s been too many nights of being with to now be suddenly without.
I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening.
We can’t underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don’t, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.
I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people’s truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.
Solutions and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying about their next drink of water.
Your life becomes what you believe.
I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I’m not being sufficiently challenged.
I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I’ve become.
Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn’t become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.
My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn’t come across – the music was pretty.
Optimisn is a choice. Cynicism isnt smarter – it’s just safer.
I love vulnerability. It’s what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified.
We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend.
Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.
Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.
My life has been full of struggles – coming from a troubled home, moving out when I was fifteen, ending up homeless by eighteen. The one thing I always knew was being jaded and bitter was equal to letting life win.
In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.
Cynicism isn’t smarter, it’s only safer. There’s nothing fluffy about optimism.