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.

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.

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

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.

And everybody should have at least one person in his or her life who doesn't want a damned thing from them except a bit of friendly company

The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops.

I am becoming in coming undone. I unbind. I rise like the morning: revolution.

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

When people tell you, "No," just smile and tell them, "Yes, I can."

The Islamic ideology is a political ideology based on a religion.

Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall--yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them.

What I did wrong had nothing to do with drugs or cocaine.