Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

I will never fit in because I was not meant to

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.

To be at peace, does not mean that you are amiss of every storm, it only means that you can find a calm within the storm.

I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.

Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.

Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

Of course, Annabeth wouldn't be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals.