Quotes About Courage

We showed record companies that they shouldn't be scared just because it's an all-girl band. We could play just as well as the boys.

When you get a record deal, you got to be pretty headstrong, know your direction.

I wanted to raise my kids to be strong, independent and follow their dreams and be themselves and make choices based on what they want not what the press, management or a record label or I don't care who it is... you stick to what you want and you be who you are and be proud of it.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

A circumstance that I was dealing with when recording my second album was I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

I don't have audition horror stories, I just have situations in which I was made to feel so small. That's the worst of all, because it's really hard to recover from.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

It would be completely wrong and arrogant of me to say that this is what I am, an inspiration to others. During the course of my recovery, I bumped into people with amazing stories, far more amazing than mine.

You couldn't play if you weren't tough. You'd get bullied. Everybody who comes through the Civitan Recreation Center has to be tough. It's what we breed.

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.

We need to redefine what a hero looks like.

I've really been trying to go back to when I was 18 and rediscover the things that drove me, and my passions. How do I get back to being that strong? Because I feel like as I get older, I'm not as fearless as I was when I was 18.

I had a breast reduction.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.

When you have hope, and you have peace, you can handle anything.

God doesn't give you more than you can handle.

I can handle any sort of pressure, any criticisms.

I have handled pressure and expectation all through my life. I am not scared of it.

Nobody should be forced to face evil with empty hands.