I don't take roles that are 'just another role.' I'm interested in learning more about myself and about humanity. So it should change you by the time it's done.

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.

Happiness comes from striving to make tomorrow better than today and being at peace when yesterday was better than today as well.

I have to live my life. I have a family and I just think it's absurd to let other people influence the way you live.

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

We need missionaries to match our message.

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

If you will tend to God’s business, He will tend to yours.

I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.

You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.