"Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more."

Growth, Metaphor, Now, Responsibility

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"Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more."

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"It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far out of your own and everybody else's idea of who you are and what you're capable of, that you no longer believe in limits. It's about reaching beyond your so-called potential, because your potential is never where you or anyone else expects it to be, not even close. It's about being able to say with the last breath of your life "I used all my potential and all my talents and pushed myself to the limit. I could not have fought any harder."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

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"Win told me that one isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

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"Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"The cost of growth is always a small act of violence."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Growth, Sacrifice, Pain, Change

"What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Growth, Dream, Difference, Expectation, Success

"One day the cub will become a wolf, even if it has been reared among the sons of man."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Growth, Transformation, Instinct, Identity

"You can't BREED at a place where you can't BREATHE. Therefore, FIX yourself where you FIT."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Breathing, Fit, Comfort

"You will learn, but you have to act. You will be given, but you have to receive. Stretch your hands and take up your laurels by the power put in you!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Learning, Action, Laurels, Empowerment

"It's important to work on our personal growth, and part of that work is learning, and accepting the fact that we are absolutely enough, as we are. Some of our most profound changes manifest by simply embracing who we've been all along."

Scott Stabile, American Author

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"Accept corrections and you'll improve and increase."

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"Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation."

Change

"I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed."

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"I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes."

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"When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever."

First

"I'll put candles all over the room, then light then, and get to it. I call it my 'vibe in a bag.'"

Light

"I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now."

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"If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless."

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"Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it."

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"Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it."

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