I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.

I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.

I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

I usually get my lyrics when I let my mind wander, when you're not really awake, but not yet fully asleep. I keep an open notebook by my bed and then just write whatever comes to me.

I want more awareness of humanity in this world.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from "Alice in Wonderland," so we've got some strange names in our family.

The only thing that prevents us from being happy is thinking.

A feminist is a woman lover not a man hater

I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

When we give up on our dreams, we die while still alive.

I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid.