Quotes On Growth

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

Since I was 15 years old, if people criticized me for something, I changed it. So you realize you might be this amalgamation of criticisms that were hurled at you, and not an actual person who's made any of these choices themselves. And so I decided I needed to live a quiet life, because a quiet personal life invites no discussion, dissection, and debate.

It took a while to understand the beauty of just letting go.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

I've come to a realization that I need to be able to forgive myself for making the wrong choice, trusting the wrong person, or figuratively falling on my face in front of everyone. Step into the daylight and let it go.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in love with mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities.

I regret a lot of things all the time. It's like, a daily ritual.

I love having a goal, feeling like I'm on a mission. I love trying to beat what I've done so far.