It's hard to listen to your own record or your own songs and not pass judgment in a critical way just because it's your own thing. It's weird to sit down to listen to it to enjoy it.

Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

Dreams don't always have to exist while the sun's down and your eyes are shut

Therapy is about every kids nightmare when people are telling you that you need to get help but all you really want is a hug.

You are who you are and that's the most beautiful thing in the world.

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

The closest friends you'll have are the ones you'd take a bullet for, but they're the ones you constantly feel you could put a bullet in as well.

Being a fan doesn't mean being there from the start... It means being there till the end.

Be your own kind of beautiful, it's super important. Take that to heart and always be yourself.

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish.

Value-added time produces multiplication and production

Take responsibility for the city

The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.

I don't mind being called Supernova. If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!