You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.

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.

Nothing carries more potential for change than individual acts of human kindness.

Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.

Then there are three or four countries that have said they won't do anything. I believe Libya, Cuba and Germany are ones that have indicated they won't help in any respect.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

I do know I want to have children. That's the only thing missing in my life. I certainly thought I'd have some by now.

It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

Do not ever say to anybody it's time for us to have a woman in the leadership, because that's the least important selling point.