I'm still the same person I've always been.

I'm usually all about the tight jeans and little T-shirt, but sometimes I want to put on a black, sequined dress and be a freaking girl

I like meeting all my fans and signing autographs, although it can all get a bit crazy. Yesterday, for example, a boy just came over and planted a big kiss on my face! I was like, 'Hello?'

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

I can't go anywhere without someone judging me.

Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don't care what people think and just go for it.

I Know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am So if you don't like it, Tough!

You'll never see it my way, because you're not me!

I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

We [with my wife] felt like we had the ability to help people not just on a local basis, but on a national basis.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.

Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

When I was a kid, the bigger boys would pick on me. So I got an idea that I would make alliances with older boys, like just one or two, who would be my protectors.