I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

I will never fit in because I was not meant to

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

Poetry is more than just art, it’s like super glue to a broken heart. It can also be a light when your life seems a little dark.

I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it.

The truth is undeniable. You tell somebody the truth, it's undeniable.

The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

If you don't treat your own people well, they won't treat other people well.

Don't spend too much time planning, release early and often, some things will work, others won't, refine and move forward and above all forget the money, just make sure you love what you're doing.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

My experiences are universal. I'm not doing anything embarrassing - to me what would be embarrassing is to talk about minutia. It would be embarrassing to get up there and not say anything.