Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

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.

You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

Nowhere hidden has ever turned away a goodheart guest.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.