-“Words can tear someone into a million pieces. I hope that wewe use your words for good.”
-no matter what happens in life, be good to people . Being good to people is a legacy to leave behind
- “When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales, wewe meet Prince Charming and he’s everything wewe ever wanted. In fairy tales, the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so wewe always know who he is. Then wewe grow up and wewe realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as wewe thought. wewe realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he’s not easy to spot; he’s really funny and he makes wewe laugh, and he has perfect hair.”
-“Never believe anyone who says wewe don’t deserve what wewe want”
-“At some point wewe have to forget about grudges because they can only hurt.”
-“To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare wewe to death.”
-“I write a lot of songs about love, and I think that’s because, to me, upendo seems like this huge, complicated thing, but it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out. Two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like… to find that one great love, where all of a sudden, everything that used to seem so complicated became simple, and everything that used to seem wrong became right because wewe were with the person who made wewe feel FEARLESS!”
-i Have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love
-“I definitely think about a million people when I’m getting dressed in the morning, and that’s just part of my life now.”
-I never want to change so much people can't recognize me
-“I don’t think wewe should wait. I think wewe should speak now.”
-“you have to base your fairytale not upon happily ever after, but on happily right now”
-Lucky enough to have something that makes wewe different from everybody else. Dont ever change
-“So don’t wewe worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine.”
-“I hope that I stand for the girl who is 15 and is in school and doesn’t fit in. Maybe she can find some sort of comfort kwa going nyumbani and putting on my CD.”
-“I could get drunk & run around Nashville naked. But I won’t because I want to set a good example for my fans.”
-“The truth of the matter is happiness isn’t a constant. wewe get fleeting glimpses of it and the rest of it, you’re fighting for those moments and those moments are what make it all worth it”
-“The beginning of upendo is when it’s all about the butterflies. The end of it is when wewe can’t get out of kitanda in the morning.”
