"They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?"

"It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!"

"I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different."

"I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called 'cherubic and chubby,' I'm rocking a bikini!"

"I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords."

"The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love."

"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."

"I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write."