“A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there”

“When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.”

“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”

“A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.”

“My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we...”

“There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimula...”