I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.

Your choice of armor was your intellect.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

I think God is in us. I think we manifest God in every moment.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.

I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.