Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.
Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.
That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.
A good mother is irreplaceable.
No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.
All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.
Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality. " I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.
I have too many clothes, I have too many options.
If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
A smooth life is not a victorious life.