Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening.

I am most alive when I let myself be touched by the fingers of life.

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

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.

I'm trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.

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.