Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.

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.

You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.

The universe wants you to succeed. So listen to her deep driving desires and be a great success.

We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.

God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.

You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.