"I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life."

"Look at what you want to change, gather a few people who believe in it like you do, and start moving forward. It's important to remember that you don't always need a destination. Sometimes, you just have to make forward motion. And you absolutely can."

"The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you."

"More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl."

"Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen."

"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being."

"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

"What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude."