Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.

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 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'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.

We need to consciously remember that we have more responsibility to protect our planet, because without it we have nowhere else to live.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.

More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.

In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.

Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.

It seems like people don't learn from the past.

Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good.

He chose better for me, He always chooses better