Quotes About Healing

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

I have this want-to-be-liked thing, but deep down, I had this rage. I was just - I was blinded. I wasn't healthy enough to be able to learn more. I had one mode - to fight.

No Rain, No Flowers' is an inside look into my journey of healing and growth.

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

I think I just wanted to run after my dad died, so I ran to Australia. It's only looking back that I think that, though. I never would have done anything like that before; it was so out of character.

I was on my way to fetch my little sister from school when I met with an accident. A bike which was at a very high speed ran over my leg while I was crossing the road. My leg was so badly fractured that it took me almost seven months to be able to stand on my legs again.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

Between '06 and '09, I dealt with pain by eating. And I was like, 'Oh, crap, eating makes you gain weight!'

Comedy, if it didn't save my life, certainly gave me a very different life.

After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.

My father told me abuse is generational.

But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through.

I'm getting better, but I used to pull away from emotion, and from people.

The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.

I just hope we can find peace and justice and get back to getting better in this world.

I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.

Forgiveness is a gift, and central to faith.

I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'

As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.

Every single one of my girlfriends who's had a big breakup has gone and done some kind of makeover, including myself.

Forgiving is giving up the wish that things could have been different. They weren't. That's the past. Let it go.

There are times when I cry. I'll sit in the chair and feel the depression, let it seethe. Then it starts to go away, and I find myself laughing, saying, 'Well, that was dramatic.'

Life goes on after a breakup.