I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

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.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.

Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can't be taken away.

It (broadcast journalism) is a brutal arena where the knives are sharp and the toughest Kevlar vest in the world will not protect you forever.

Chess is, above all, a fight.

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

You should've just gotten a kids' meal.” Adrian told me, pointing to my half-eaten burger and fries. “You could've saved me a lot of money. And gotten a toy.

Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.