It's funny when you can actually relate to the fans on a human level and it happens all the time. People assume that's impossible. So when that happens it's a cool thing.

Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.

This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.

Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.

I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.

If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

No one's an angel - especially if he's a man

That's always the worst: the not knowing. Because then you're stuck with a hundred questions no one can answer.

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

The Internet is the trailer park for the soul.

The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

I’ve stopped war reporting. I realized that I’d answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

Success is not something you achieve, conquer, climb, or complete. Success is a process; it's a way of life.