Growing up, theres a lot of pressure to be normal. But normal isnt as fun as being yourself.

In terms of fashion, I love adding a fun scarf to whatever I'm wearing - it's a great way to dress up a plain outfit!

People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.

I just remind myself that the gifts I have, I've been given for a reason and that every day brings new opportunities to use them.

Cool is overrated. Be a geek for what you Love

I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

I really do like Bruno Mars. I think he's very good. And I love Maroon 5.

I'm really passionate about music.

Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.

I definitely get stage fright.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.

Love was not only blind, it often careened into Blithering Idiotsville as well.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.

What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere.

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.