I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

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

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 have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

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.