Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been putting into my career.

I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in my own life.

The amount of time I spent on facing my negative conscious has been most of my struggle and changing my mind-set has been the biggest change in my life not my weight.

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.

Women come in all shapes and sizes, and we are what we want to be, not the label that is placed on us.

I would like to release an album that I truly believe in, thus it is hard to put a time limit on it. I want to really go deeper and discover myself again through music.

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.

The weight loss has been a secondary change to the mental changes I have made. Weight loss does not fix problems; how you view yourself does.

Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it.

I am only capable of what I allow myself to believe I can do.

I started to realize that everyone goes through those doubts, and I need to try and be the best version of me I can - not only for myself but everyone around me.

Paying twenty-five dollars for me was your mistake, ma’am. I’m not worth more than fifteen.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for clothes, but it's not what you want in real life. Why do we have to keep looking at ourselves and measuring?

Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.