Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling.

Live your life, listen to your music way to loud, be crazy and as different as you want to be and always remember your not alone

There's absolutely no one in the world that can tell you can't do something. You're the only person that can set that limitation.

Please remember, that even in your darkest moments, you still have the choice to focus your energy on the positive and create a better life.

You don't fall in love with a gender, you fall in love with a person.

Always be yourself, unless you can be Batman, always be Batman.

Be who you want to be and not care about what others think.

Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter where you are right now blast some music and forget about lifes problems.

Take joy in who you are, we know our wings are flawed.

I had a goal, I had a dream... and at the end of the day no matter what people say to you as long as YOU know who you are as a person NOTHING else in the world matters.

Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.

Be young at heart. Remember back when you were young and what made you happiest then. Recapture the simplicity and wonder of youth and make it a state of mind.

Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. [Ger., Aber wer fest auf dem Sinne beharrt, der bildet die Welt sich.]

We can thank God for everything good, and all the rest we don't comprehend yet.

I certainly believe that being in contact with ones spirit and nurturing ones spirit is as important as nurturing ones body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

Outwork the bullshit. That means nothing can rattle you when your conditions are set. And the way you set those conditions is by working damn hard.

Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.