If you really ever love someone, that doesn't go away, although you wish it would.

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

You have to hide what you are and it's really stressful and very bad for your self esteem. Because it's not obvious to people that you are ill, they treat you as if you're a pain in the ass, then you beat yourself up and you are already beating yourself up as a part of mental illness.

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

I feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way.