If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

In my case, my mother had to be my mother and father, so I am thankful to her.

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!

Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights, drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

We are so much more powerful and important than we realize. In each moment that we connect with another, we have the opportunity to etch a memory into their heart.

I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.