Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss. ”

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly. ”

My three addictions of choice are food, love and work. ”

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man. ”

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in. ”

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman. ”

I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long. ”

I'm really connected to people, and my relationships with people are paramount, so I write about relationships, particularly strong female ones. In my family, there were six girls born in five years. We were best friends. And my parents raised all of us as first-class citizens. ”

If I went to a regular job, if I was a secretary or something, I'd want to look good. I'd dress up for that part. ”

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way. ”