“Music is the love of my life. It’s a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpected and meaningful.”

The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.

People don’t know how to talk about being depressed – that it’s totally okay to feel sad.

People are always telling me that i’m not like other girls that i don’t dress like other girls that i don’t act like other girls. But i’m my OWN person. I go to the beat of my own drum.

My favourite sport is cheerleading!

Jesus is who saved me. He’s what keeps me full and whole.

All I wanted was to break your walls, all you wanted was to break me

I feel like I’m one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything.

I don’t respect your statement because of the anger that came with it.

We run things, things don’t run we.

If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don’t because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don’t wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that’s when your spark is lost.

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

I think water’s, like, a really important thing.

I like Kurt Cobain. He is like my dream boyfriend.

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn’t one giant press junket. I don’t have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what’s big and what’s little, what matters and what to put aside.

My dad used to tell me ‘opinions are like assholes, everybody has one’

I’m so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There’s no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still haven’t found a real purpose in life. Sometimes, I’m afraid to get out of bed in the morning. There’s nothing to get up for.

The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way – through the power of words – to change the world.

If you’ve made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

This silent call you make, A silence so loud I fear the world knows it’s meaning If you fill every corner of a room Where can I look? If I close my eyes the silence becomes louder! There is no escape from you The only way out is in

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.