Quotes About Transition

I finally chopped off my ponytail at the end of middle school, and it was the best decision I made.

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.

I grew up, initially, poor and then rich and then back to poor when I was in the military and college. And then eventually made some money playing poker.

Country is and always will be my heart, but I don't have a problem with it spilling over into pop if it wants to.

In the early 90s, I did not want to get stuck in pop music.

It was like I was Hannah Montana! I was a normal girl from Pittsburgh one minute and then a pop star the next!

I went through all these different phases in my life. And now, I'm finally in a place where I know who I am; I just needed that extra push. I feel really, really good in the position I'm in right now, and I don't feel like I completely neglected my pop-rock sound: I was able to bring it in with my country roots.

The pope dies, you get another pope.

When I got to the NBA, picking and popping came so natural for me.

When I moved to Nashville, I didn't really let myself sonically explore, but things naturally got a little more poppy. And in L.A., even more so.

The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.

I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.

The military is a discrete entity. Then they come back, and they're such a small percentage of the population, and they can't really - it's hard for them to talk to civilians.

I don't drive Yugo anymore, I drive Porsche.

My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America.

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

I left New York in 2009 when I fell in love with someone who had a farmhouse in New Hampshire... Portland, Maine, felt like the inevitable place for us.

When I was in Portland, there were some dark times for me.

Being here in Houston, I have a lot more weight on my shoulders than I did in Portland. I feel a lot more appreciated because I am starting now, and I'm scoring goals.

I feel like, of course, Portland didn't want me to leave, but I feel like at the end of the day it's good to have a fresh start.

When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded the direction I have since gone, these images were always of a very fixed, rigid quality, and, of course, my work still has this aspect.