And I was shocked, To see the mistakes of each generation, Will just fade like a radio station, If you drive out of range...

We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way it goes, better to be dusty than polished, like some store window mannequin, why don't you touch me where i'm rusty, let me stain your hands

We need a radically truthful way to acknowledge reproductive freedom.

I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.

These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can see those songs I bailed on could have been better, that had those great two verses and then I kind of coasted from there. These days, if a song is giving me trouble, I put it aside and pick it up later, and keep doing that, for a year if I have to, until it takes shape.

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people