Quotes

I was the biggest class clown. I loved attention.

I've always been an entertainer. It's in my blood, in the sense that I've always loved doing it.

I make songs that I genuinely enjoy and love, and just put them out kind of freely and carelessly.

What motivates me is connecting with people and making everybody feel loved.

'Mine' was interesting because it was about the way that someone made me feel so loved - so beautiful, so special, so accepted. I knew that it was deeper than just writing a song about that.

I'm making music that I love a lot, so to me, they're all the same; I love them all equally as much. It's like children. You don't pick a favorite, even if one goes to Harvard.

I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

It doesn't matter what a family looks like as long as you get the love, support and encouragement to be whatever you want to be and do great things in life.

I used to always listen to Z100 in NYC and I love Elvis Duran.

I wrote 'Song Like You' the day I recognized that someone who was really important to me was not actually very good for me, nor was I for them. I think we all have to make hard decisions like that at one point or another, having to let go of someone who we love because love isn't always enough to make it work.

I love feelings that are universal, things that tie every single person on this earth together. I think we all battle between what we know is right and what we feel is right every single day, and as much as that can be difficult it's absolutely human.

The expression that friends are the family you choose, is so powerful, because most people are close with their families, and when you add people into that level of trust, love, and loyalty, it's a really meaningful thing. The fact you're actively choosing each other is so beautiful at its core.

People yell at me because I often say that everyone's my best friend, but it's true! I think that's why I like playing the best friend so much, is because I love best friends.

I'm Beanie, and I'm terrible in the kitchen, so I just need so much help. And I'm allergic to dairy, so vegan food is a love of mine.

I have always been short, and most people want to be taller. That's sort of a thing, but I love being short.

Everyone always said, 'When you're 10, you'll want to be Elizabeth, or when you're in college.' And every time, I was was just like, 'No, I'm Beanie. That's who I am.' So I love my name because I think it really suits me.

If I were to talk to my younger self, I would say, 'Girl, you're gonna be on Broadway one day.' I sometimes think about my younger self knowing that and how ridiculously she's sobbing somewhere, so I would love to tell her that it's all going to happen.

I love to be the best friend. It's like my dream in life to be everybody's best friend.

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!

I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.

I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.