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.

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.

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.

A person without a plan is a person with soggy dreams.

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

I contemplate the bones for a while then turn away. I have work to do. Next year I will have an odako that is bigger, grander, more beautiful than anyone has ever seen. Next year.

The world is governed by opinion.

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

Every time Kellyanne Conway goes on TV, there's another fight with whoever's interviewing her that particular day.

I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.