(Talking about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)I can remember her singing, the thrill of it," she said. "She was one of my first inspirations.The people around me provided all the inspiration I needed. Everything I wrote (at that time) came from that experience, what I observed happening around me.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together

Winter = baking season. It's on.

I don't really think you can ever stop making new friends or learning about as many new things as possible.

I was the girl who didn’t get invited to parties.

We find ourselves in that situation where we want to believe, we want to think we're the exception, we want to think we can change someone or tame a lion or make a bad guy good or something like that but 9 times out of 10 we end up looking back going, "Oh, shame on me, should've seen that one coming!"

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.