To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.

NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.

Tears are words the heart can't express

Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.

I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. If my life was a film, I'd have walked out by now.

Pride achieves almost nothing but destroys a lot.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.

In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.