“I'm finished crying for Casey. I'm crying for all the other mothers.”

“And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.”

“But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?”

“I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.”

“Go cry to your mother.”

“I don't need to cry so much. I think whatever you let loose with crying, I let loose with singing. I tend to be the one who wants… I'm trying to say this without sounding too touchy-feely. I'm usually the one who's better at comforting the person who's crying, you know?”

“I have my big-boy pants on right now. I'm trying not to cry!”

“I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places makes me want to cry.”

“The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.”

“I'm the kind of person that if I'm not getting something that I need from somewhere. I don't cry about it, I'm like OK I'm going to go here and find what I need.”