“I breeze through Twitter – I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.”

After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.

I just talk a lot, that’s the problem.

Wait a minute, I’m a fan of yours; you can’t be a fan of mine!

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

Fame is a very strange animal.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

I’m trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

I was looking for something and I wasn’t sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses,

Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time.

There’s always gonna be people that are scared of it. But at the end of the day you give those bullies, those people, that are so ignorant, if you give them the power to affect you, you’re letting them win.

When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience – they love it.

I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.

Conforming is not cool. Embracing who you are and what makes you different is actually what’s really cool.

I have crushes on women all the time.

I’ve sung other people’s music all my life.

The biggest risk I’ve ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myse

Desjardins was literally fuming. His tattered robes still smoked from battle. (Carter says I shouldn’t mention that his pink boxer shorts were showing, but they were!)

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.

I would like to mention astrophysics; in this field, the strange properties of the pulsars and quasars, and perhaps also the gravitational waves, can be considered as a challenge.

The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king.

The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.