Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Diligence without intelligence is tragedy, not success.

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

Anything that I do is something that I'm passionate about and really believe in, no matter how it turns out.

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

I've always been quite a proud ginger so I couldn't dye it and betray the other gingers.

There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.