Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.

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.

You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.

We all will be Christed when we hear ourselves say: We are that to which we pray

I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing.

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.