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.
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.
I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn’t annoy parents. I used The Beatles ‘Rocky Raccoon’ as sort of a starting place for my writing.
I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.
I’m somebody who, as a child, had a lot of insecurity about stable housing, where I was going to be living, if I was going to have a roof over my head, all those types of things. And I know the impact it can have on you psychologically and emotionally.
I’ve had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that’s just what I’ve always liked – people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
Reality is what you believe it to be. It’s what you put your thought and energy into, because your hands physically manifest thought. So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God’s angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.
But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.
To maintain a fault known is a double fault.
In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.
The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body.
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.
The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.
But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue forever, and never have an end.
I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.