I want to push myself to be brave and out of my comfort zone, but I guess I stay in my comfort zone knowing I have my family close by.Collection: Knowing
I'm strong and I can do things that scare me. I can drive in the snow even though it terrifies me. I'm doing it all alone, I don't have a boyfriend, it was like, "I can do this."Collection: Strong
In my 20s, my mom and I went and saw the bridges of Madison County, which are in Iowa, and I had seen that movie with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. I've always done these Iowa road trips. I did this transcendental meditation course in Fairfield, Iowa. So I've known since my early 20s that someday I would buy a farm in Iowa.Collection: Mom
For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.Collection: Long
[My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.Collection: People
The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.Collection: People
Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.Collection: Zero
I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix.Collection: Home
I keep re-watching Friends. It's so dumb. There's so much good TV and I'm really into all of it.Collection: Dumb
I'm really close to my family. As I get older, it's like they're the only people I really talk to.Collection: People
Because I can isolate and be a bit of a loner, [my ideal] is finding some sense of community where I'm one of many and where my skills are equally as important and valuable.Collection: Skills
I'm 33, my generation, when I was young, we'd go out into the woods for the entire day and come back for dinner. I was definitely a kid of the '80s, who was out and about.Collection: Kids
I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.Collection: Ideas
Sometimes people think, "You don't get to have it all, you don't get to be happy, life's a struggle," but what if it's not?Collection: Struggle
I'll always want to play and share my music with as many people as I can, but the emphasis is more on how do I find a happy place, what's my balance, what's my ideal.Collection: Play
There was a time in my late teens and early 20s where I was motivated by this wanting to get out, to prove to the world that I had something to offer - that kind of youthful spirit, where maybe I had my eye on fame and fortune. I mellowed out in my late 20s and now that I'm in my early 30s, I'm coming to peace with it.Collection: Eye
I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.Collection: Bars
I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.Collection: Thinking
Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.Collection: Stranger
You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.Collection: Land
I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in high school we would go drink kegs in cornfields.Collection: Country