I think I actually did write about love because I kind of had a fear of it, like we all do, nobody wants to get hurt.

I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

Fake it, fake your confidence until it's real. I think it's a good way to live most of your life.

There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.

When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

I quite like dark humor.

My biggest fear is love and getting hurt in love but still believing.

I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really bouncy and bubbly always make really sad music.

If you believe something enough, it comes true eventually, and that's so true even with lies. If you tell yourself a lie, after a few years you'll think it's true.

Books are humanity in print.

[We're] going to change the world. One day they'll write about us. You'll see.

Expectations hinder you from being prepared for the unexpected

I'm fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face

I haven't found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.