Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.

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.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to stimulate discussion.

Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.