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Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.
I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening.
I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.
There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds.
Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.
You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.
We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable.
I'd sit on logs like pulpitslisten to the sermonof sparrowsand find god in Simplicity,there amongst the dandelionand thorn
Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.
Sharing lets us feel less isolated and puts us on a path of being connected. At the end of the day, that's what we all want.
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.
I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"
Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.
I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.
You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.
Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.
I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.
We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in
Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.
I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.
Faith and hope are the antidote. Stay actively involved in manifesting your dreams and the world created will be one we all want to live in.
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry.'
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'
Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.
The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.
I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime.
If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we are all ok. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.
It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.
I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.
If someone is willing to help you understand your own worth when you're vulnerable, that's a very touching thing. It makes you want to help other people.
I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is.
I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.
I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way.
Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.
I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.
Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS
I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important - while you're in it, you might not know, but now I think of the things I was thankful for.
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.
Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.
To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer.
We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.
Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not.
I'm always looking for ways that I can work from home with my home studio and stay busy. This is a great way to do it. Having a home studio has made projects like this a lot easier.
I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.