The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

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.

Part of waging war is knowing when you’re outgunned.

There is light in every soul.

Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.

Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003

Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

I do not think the crowd affected us, but the position of being in a big time game may well have affected us.

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.