My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

Circumstances will change and things will be fine, just hold on a little more

The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.

I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have gotten back together, I thought.

Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.

Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.

It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.

But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read.

As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.

I am more into things like CSI, but then Glee started and I was like, "Oh this is different."

There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what.

Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music.

Circumstances do not create the quality of your life.

Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can.

I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.

Considering yourself a feminist doesn't make you one. Being an empathic human who can see both sides of a coin is feminism's true essence.