I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

I think patience is the best thing to try to embrace.

With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.

If I'm experiencing a different thing every day and seeing a new environment every day, it can create a different mood or different feeling.

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.

I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not in front of you yet because I'm too shy, but here's how I sound for now."

The fact that I'm getting appreciated and praised alone is a crazy moment because I never thought it would happen.

If you take care of someone, it does not mean that one should take care of you, someone other will be/has been sent by the God for you

Books are silent, but have the ability to scream.

I've always used Old English in certain songs.

It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.

What Sarah brings to the part is her intelligence, at the same time, she's got that hormonal, idiosyncratic goofiness that makes Buffy not just the Terminator.

Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.

Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.