If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more

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.

In short, you had that particular ability which I never had: the ability to be alive.

Most people around here prefer undead drivers, so I never get a chance to make any money on steady contracts.

Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

Manipulating [is] just the way to proceed, to convince that what you're doing is important. Is nothing more than that. Everyone is manipulating.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq.

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.