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 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'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.

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

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.

You were free, you are free and you will be free.

I am a feminist because in every woman I can see reflection of my mother.

Everything unsaid can be guessedTruth may not always be confessed

We're living in hard times.

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.

Geniuses never pay attention.

I do have faith that something better is always coming for you.

I like audiences to crane their necks.

Dentists, lawyers, doctors are all a bunch of thieving bastards.