I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships

You know you love me. Xoxo, GossipGirl.

the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.

Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.

And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl

You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you

Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you

Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!

Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.

You're a superhero. Deal with it.

What are you supposed to do when something like that happens? Do you hold on or let go?

my world is different from all of you because, you all wanna rule your circle and i wanna rule all the circles

My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness.

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

I'd rather be sorry for something I had done than for something I didn't do.

Know not what you know, and see not what you see. [Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris; Ne videris quod videris.]

I almost shouldnt be in Limp Bizkit, its like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band.