Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.
You're amazing, just the way you are.
To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.
Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I'm going to write, I really want to write a song, and it never works out. It's always when it hits me unexpectedly on a plane or right before I go to bed, something like that.
I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.
I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.
What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.
There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.
I was really lucky. I had a really great opportunity. I went to an all girls, very small private school from seventh grade all the way to graduating. It was so wonderful because the focus was school at school. . . and during the week I could be that nerdy bookworm of a girl, and do six hours of homework at night.
Even though we all have genetic predispositions, our health and aging aren't predetermined.
your faith and hope are in god.