Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.
It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.
What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.
It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.
Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.
My thinking brain never stops my creative brain never stops so they wrestle a lot and get in fights sometimes they fight in the night and keep me up.
I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.
You can never get ahead by trying to get even.
Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk, or watching a flower, or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.
The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.
Order and system are nobler things than power.