I think I've learnt a lot about bullying and how to deal with bullying and how to get over that and to just be yourself and forget the haters.

Cheating is bad. That's a big mistake I've made, and I've really hurt people. I've never lied about it, though. I've always been honest.

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.

No matter what, I always have expensive designer shoes. It's all about the shoes for me.

I think one day I'd like to win an Oscar.

I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all.

I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.

In real life I'm pretty easy going and pretty chill, I'm not the party girl who will go wild and crazy necessarily.

I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.

When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.

I have a reoccurring dream that I'm in the ocean in New Zealand and everything is completely upside down, because it's on the other side of the planet.

Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.

Curiosity is a sickness of want to understanding.

The first step to that kingdom of God within is to find peace within even among chaos.

I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

You can't go east and west at the same time.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.

Work hard in school and listen to your parents. They really do want the very best for you and have been where you're going.