It's important to keep up momentum, when I'm home alone I get stagnant, I go crazy and have to see my therapist. Being on the road keeps me busy. I'm okay when I'm busy.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.

NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.

Tears are words the heart can't express

Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

Scientists found that there are exactly as many skin pigment colors to the various races of this world as there are different colors of soil [dirt].

I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.

Main Street has too much debt already. It is simply a bonanza for speculators who can borrow the overnight money and then buy something that they can speculate on.

When you are unsure about the future, keep doing what is in front of you with all your heart and with love, and what is meant for you will find you.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.

I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.