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I had turned into a trophy wife - and I sucked at it. I wasn't detail-oriented enough to maintain a perfect house or be a perfect hostess. I could no longer hide my boredom when the men talked and the women smiled and listened. I wasn't interested in Botox or makeup or reducing the appearance of the scars from my C-sections.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Over time, I have come to believe that 'brave' does not mean what we think it does. It does not mean 'being afraid and doing it anyway.' Nope. Brave means listening to the still small voice inside and doing as it says. Regardless of what the rest of the world is saying.

I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we're polite, we're respectful, but at the end of the day we're young, we like to have fun. But now, more so than ever, the youth has been vilified to the point where it feels like you can't enjoy being young any more, you just have to sit it out and wait until you get old.

If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates.

Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Music is one of the highest forms of language which can touch everyone’s feeling—including animals.

Artists frequently argue that videos trivialize a song and that touring for months at a time works against the creative process, not to mention maintaining a normal lifestyle. Doing something about these complaints, however, is rare because promotional videos and touring are considered essential elements in building multimillion-unit album sales.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.

Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?'

In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist.

Displaying it on Twitter, validation is the trigger. Eager to please the eyes of few, we'll go a mile or two. Definition of love is only clicks away, in a crowded platform that is the bible of today. 

I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.

Soul mate romance dissolves the superficial and touches your deepest heart with the delightful power of love.

I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

All insulation is environmentally friendly. Some installation has better environmental credentials, but what matters is the energy it saves.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.