You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through. - Oprah Winfrey

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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.

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I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time

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It’s bigger than me. It’s about while I was here on Earth what did I do to help. -- Kanye West

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I love conversations with kids in the meet and greet lines — little people with little voices! I love babies. Someday I would love to be a parent, but I want that time to come when I’ve experienced so much of the world. My life will be devoted to making that child’s life as wonderful, beautiful, magical and perfect as it can possibly be. I want to wait until there is no ounce of me left that has anything self-centered to experience.

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It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.

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My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

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The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

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Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.

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One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me.... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

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