I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

I can be a bit grumpy. Im full of angst, and hormones.

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.

I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn't get caught. I hope I don't go to jail for that.

If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.

Anybody who has a problem with 'Skins' obviously doesn't understand teenage life.

Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

Always evaluate and determine the product of your life

All tastes are expressions of belief.

Circumstances alter cases.

I watch the clouds as I see them in pomp advancing, pursuing the fallen sun.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.

Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait.

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.