If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’….

It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential..

As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I w….

Everyone always says more than they're supposed to..

Get it right in your head - and you'll get it right in your life..

I think that a lot of teenagers think they got it all down-pat. Especially when they first move out and they're on their own for the first time. Oh t….

Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes..

Love more and openly..

When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's fl….

The less inhibited you are the better..

I learn to be kind of balanced, because when I was a teenager and in my early 20s, I would get very involved with political issues and stuff like tha….

The blues is life itself..

Identify the thing that is going to stop you and then stop it..

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do..

I say, let's learn more and then speculate..

It's great to be back on terra cotta.

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet..

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands..

I know what I want! And I just go for it..

Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. ….

You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock for you to tell them everythin….