In the end only kindness matters.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.

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 try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It's more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time.

I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.

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.