“I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.”

In real life, I’m a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

I think it’s really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.

I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called Fingers Crossed.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time. I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

I’m a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there’s a lot that I think is really cool.

Heart made of glass and my mind of stone.

All the good girls go to hell.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!

What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?

We have to start with the little babies who are born now, socialize them in freedom and critical thinking. We don’t have to throw away their faith. People confuse the two, thinking if you are enlightened that means apostasy. It doesn’t.

Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don’t have pace.

…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation – a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion – that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change.