I’m never going to be a woman who doesn’t work. At 12 I was emancipated from my parents so I could sign my first record deal. I think I was born working!
I think it’s ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he’s an athlete. I was always, ‘An athlete? Heck no.’
I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I’m certainly not denying that I’m young, but I’m not fluff.
When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.
Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?
I’m not anorexic. I’m from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I’ve never heard of one. And that includes me.
This week it’s peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, toasted. And then, I’ll put some salt on my hand like I’m taking a tequila shot and then take a bite of the sandwich.
Sometimes we are all so afraid to be honest with ourselves because we know that honesty will lead to somewhere.” I wrote this ten years ago. “Can fear walk us to something better?
There are so many firsts to raising kids, and parents are told to catch them all. But they don’t warn you about the lasts. The last baby onesie. The last time you tie their shoes. The last time they think you have every answer in the world.
It didn’t make me cry, it made me mad. But he was breaking down in front of the world, and, again, I felt responsible. How many times are women made to feel responsible for the actions of men? I know now that.
That’s the power of faith in action. It’s not about talking and judging. It’s about doing.
Whatever you are going through, the sun will come out.
Did he repeatedly stab me in the heart, or did I just keep running into the knife he aimed at me?
She had mailed them a few days before she died, wishing everyone a great future. It was a powerful lesson in creating a legacy by choosing your words with intention. We are on this earth such a short time, cruelly short in Sarah’s case. What message did I want to leave behind?
The look I was going for was sexy but saved. Come hither but leave room for the Lord.
Give a girl an insult, she’ll feel bad for a day, but teach a girl to hate her body and she’ll feel bad forever.
I wanted to see who I was, without using another person’s love for me as a measurement of my value.
The kids are asleep, and my husband is reading in the other room. So, it’s just you and me. Every night after we put our children to bed, I come down here to the study to write. It’s cold here in Los Angeles, so bedtimes have been creeping later. My daughter Maxwell is six now and my son Ace is five, and they have the kind of energy that.
Let’s just promise to be there for one another in our imminent and enduring times of trouble and thunder.” “Deal,” I said. He always talked like that. I would moon over him to CaCee, using that same lofty language.
It is so easy to notice things about people and tell them. I don’t know why people don’t just give out compliments every single day.
But then I remind myself that life is really just about one moment at a time. To not think about two years from now, but to think about right now. Two years from now will figure itself out.