I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

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.

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

We must demand more not from each other, but more from ourselves