There are people that will try to hurt you and hold you down.

It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.

You can make yourself happy.

I'm not macho. I'm very open about things. I don't try to hide my feelings.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

You can become something you don't want to become, but it's a change, a new phase. Hopefully one you want.

You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.

There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

Boldness comes from curiosity.

People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting.

Go somewhere people only dream of in their most wildest imagination.

Clay lies still but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep Up lad when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.

I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.

Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity.

I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of "oblivion" as fundamental to their attitude for their expression.