The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
I don't really do acting. I've done a little bit - enough to know I'll stick to what I know. Music is my thing.
I carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I don't want bodyguards. I am my own security.
Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.
I think the unconditional love you get from an animal, especially a dog, is better than anything else.
When I got a record deal I said, 'I'm only wearing jeans. I'm not wearing frilly dresses. ' Dancing around in sequins is just not who I am. I wanted to be heard, not seen.
I just feel like it's easier to co-write sometimes, especially if you have chemistry with somebody. It kind of takes all the pressure off of you. But, you know, I started writing songs by myself. I didn't really have a co-writer, besides my dad. When I see a record and it has a song on it that someone wrote [alone], I just really believe in them as a writer. I feel like it's a window into them, more than it is if you write a song with someone else.
The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.
Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael's dark heart, something was melting.
Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that is not performed for His sake then it is wasted and severed. Every heart that does not reach Him is wretched; veiled from achieving its success and happiness.
Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.