If I looked at every other girl in the entertainment industry as competition, my life would be really lonely. I wouldn't have some of the coolest friends that I'm so glad I've gotten to know.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.

You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.

When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

Economics is a very dangerous science.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.