“I know it’s horrible, but they actually make me laugh. They make my day.”

I think the song itself, ‘Smoke and Fire,’ is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.

That’s just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup.

I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

Every free day, every weekend, I am in a recording session. I’m very lucky to have such supportive people around me.

The first songs I learned was ‘Crazy’ by Patsy Cline and ‘At Last’ by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.

We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don’t feel they would help anybody.

Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.

I guess we’ll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other… but I couldn’t really see my life without them, both of them.

I feel like the more I work on different songs and the more I work on my voice constantly…

My favorite makeup look was for my ‘Eyes Wide Open’ video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.

A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

There’s so many things that I’ve gone through that I want to share because there’s other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.

I loved all of the ‘Zenon’ movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion.

I’m trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It’s not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.

If you’re going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.

I always feel better after I post a cover. Even if it’s doing the little 15 second covers.

I’ve always wanted to have a book published – it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don’t see the Taliban coming back in any way.

The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.

Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.

Actually, all paths lead away from the truth…how’s that? All paths. There’s no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth’s already here, where are you going?

There are many, many books I’ve read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something.

Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.

Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.