Each step of the way, I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice, ' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken.

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.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Don’t we get into God’s Word so it can get into us? So that it can interrupt us, change us, satisfy us? How sad to simply settle for learning facts about the Bible when it was meant for so much more

I wasn’t born to fetch, or sit, or accept a beating. I’m here to be me, to write, and know my purpose.

When I'm older, I want to have my own workout clothes line, like leggings and cute jackets in bright and fun colors.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

I see something in her eyes, sends me to a better place.

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.

I do believe that an actor, who is self aware, will never do a film that is not an extension of his personality.

My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.