Don't take life too seriously! Learn to enjoy yourself and be grateful for all you have.

If they ask you to sign a contract up front or for money, that's usually a bad sign.

Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy of course). You can learn a lot watching other performers.

If my lyrics mean something special to someone... that's the most important thing to me.

I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.

Keep up with social media. Twitter and Facebook are both great ways to get your music out, especially internationally.

I don't know a lot about New Zealand except that it is beautiful! All of my friends in bands who have toured there have said great things about it so I hope I can go perform there soon!

Every blade has two edges

For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence.

Bruce lives a lie. She is not a lie. I can't do it anymore.

I love funky shoes and hats. I'm into large-brimmed fedoras with big feathers in fun colors like purple and lime-yellow. I just think hats add pizzazz to your outfits.

Eat food. Eat actual food. I try to not eat anything processed or sugar-free - I eat lots of fruits and vegetables.

I was never one to stand on a soap box and say, "This is how you need to live your life!" It was never about that.

[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.

Perhaps it's not that I'm frigid-- it's that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances.

You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.

I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!