I love movies like '500 Days of Summer' and 'Juno.' Something offbeat without the glamour and the makeup and the clothing.

Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth.

But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

Life is about becoming a better version of yourself.

I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world - you don't need to be your own worst enemy.

I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I know what I believe in. I know my morals and I know what I have to offer.

I don't really believe in cliques - I think everyone can be friends with everyone.

I'm beautifully strong and tragically confused.

It's fun to pretend you're a little kid, you get to use your imagination and live in a world that's not real.

I feel like girls in general will always worry about the same things, and it's all appearance related. That will always be there. When you grow older, you grow more confident with who you are.

Love is louder than anger, even in silence.

There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars

Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.