If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

Fake it, fake your confidence until it's real. I think it's a good way to live most of your life.

There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.

When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

I quite like dark humor.

My biggest fear is love and getting hurt in love but still believing.

I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really bouncy and bubbly always make really sad music.

If you believe something enough, it comes true eventually, and that's so true even with lies. If you tell yourself a lie, after a few years you'll think it's true.

Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.

Damn, she was getting so tangled up by guilt and desire. ~Nikki in Texas Tangle

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

if I inflict wounds, I heal them.

The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.

Every time you try to encourage someone else, your own soul will be flooded with a light and glow of peace and good cheer.

"I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said. "No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards."