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.

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from "Alice in Wonderland," so we've got some strange names in our family.

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

You may leave school, but it never leaves you.

One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.

By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.

How you feel? How you feel? How you feel? 25 sittin on 25 mill.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...