The best part was seeing fans and making new ones. I loved going to new places. I really had the time of my life out there.

I have a really grounded group of friends, and they like me no matter what. I think it's really important to know who your real friends are.

You've got to pursue your dreams and it will get you to places that you can't even imagine.

Make sure with the time that you have, you really make an impact on people.

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my own chords and putting words together.

I think artists like Justin Bieber really opened up a door for younger artists to be respected in the industry. I really like what he did.

I think my music is a lot different than what is already out there and people will be really attracted to it.

It was really cool being out on the road and doing school with my tutor over Skype or on the phone, but it can definitely be difficult.

My education is the most important thing so I always have to make time for it.

I've been surfing almost as long as I've been playing music.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

You don't get creative by staying in the same place.

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

When we worship God as we ought that's when the nations listen.

The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.

We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

I think that happens to a lot of people who find themselves thrust into the spotlight and becoming famous before they recognize what's happening to them. Life becomes a little distorted for them.

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.