I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

The minute grains of sand slipped silently down the curved hourglass, no matter how many times the people of Earth willed them not to. Time, fate and the actions of others were out of their control.

It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

New York in the 60s was amazing.

Patience is the Gnostic's scale and the humble the garden's door.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done