Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible.

Finding out the truth is only half of it. It's what you do with it that matters.

Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.

I get offered a lot of black roles, because apparently I dont look Latino enough.

True Blood' is amazing. I have to give a shout out to 'Melrose Place' because I do watch. I love 'Entourage.' One of my favorite shows back in the day was 'Friday Night Lights.

When I was 17, I was always hanging out with the older kids, and a lot of times, the kids that graduated would come back and play pranks. I was a huge, huge, huge prankster.

Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.'

'True Blood' is amazing. I have to give a shout out to 'Melrose Place' because I do watch. I love 'Entourage.' One of my favorite shows back in the day was 'Friday Night Lights.'

The word indulgent has become a popular catchphrase for dishes we should not eat for health's sake. I never use it to describe food, only poor parenting.

[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestow

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Dare to look at the intersectionalities.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

I see a lot of nice hotels, but I never really get to enjoy the cities, because I have to be on a plane the next day.

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

Obamacare is a crime against democracy.

I don't really time how long it steeps, but in general I don't plan much when it comes to tea or cooking. I'm more about the feeling.