I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.

I want to inspire people to become their higher selves, their best selves.

We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.

I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown.

I've quit drugs and drinking and been into healthy stuff like yoga.

I wanted to make some music with deeper meaning mixed with the fun and cool stuff I've been doing for so long.

I don't like being preachy. I think using fun and humor is an excellent way to make people think.

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes it's really challenging to get anything good out of myself.

Everything I do has to come from a sense of fun and joy.

Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.

Enslavement of the heart is worse than enslavement of the body

I don't care what you think. You're not my brother," Clary said. "You're a murderer." "I really don't see how those things cancel each other out," said Sebastian.

I've been fighting my whole life.

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.

The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give.