Break the Shell”: “Child, it’s time to break the shell Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.

I'm just in that stage where I pray for God to show me how I can be effective in the world and things come up and I go. But I have yet to really dig in.

Any time someone is passionate about a cause, it's because they want to heal something inside of themselves.

The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of.

I feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do.

I'm passionate about the empowerment and healing of girls and women. Where I do the most work in that regard is in my songwriting.

Eating is not one of the things that I do now to deal with pain, because I don't ever want to do that. But I isolate myself, that's what I do.