Well in case you failed to notice,In case you failed to see,This is my heart bleeding before you,This is me down on my kneesThese foolish games are tearing me apartYour thoughtless words are breaking my heartYou’re breaking my heart
The things you fear are undefeatablenot by their nature but by your approach
The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence
It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.
Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so.
I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don’t outrun pain.
What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.
Reality wins, and I’d rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.
You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.
My hands are small, I knowBut they’re not yours, they are my ownBut they’re not yours, they are my ownAnd I am never broken
My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call “breaking” is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.
We can’t underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don’t, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.
Words can be said easily, but one can’t fake actions.
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there’s really nothing to lose.
True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.
So you write to our congressmenWith bleeding pensOf the sorrow withinAnd in return they just sendTickets to the latest Tom Hanks show
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.
Amazingly, I’ve been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I’ve been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.
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 think family mealtime is really important. There’s a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.
I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important – while you’re in it, you might not know, but now I think of the things I was thankful for.
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there’s really nothing to lose. There’s no wrong you can’t make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There’s no bounds.
I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it’s just obtuse to them. It’s hard to relate to.
I’ve always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, ‘How odd that I’m doing a record before a book of poetry,’
I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.