“I’ve found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn’t mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I’ve just added more things to my list.”

A lot of songwriting is things you learn, structure, and cultivating that skill, and knowing how to craft a song. But there are mystical, magical moments, inexplicable moments when an idea that is fully formed just pops into your head. And that’s the purest part of my job.

“I wanna still have a sharp pen, and thin skin and an open heart”

“I’ve found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn’t mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I’ve just added more things to my list.”

“They aren't gonna help us, too busy helping themselves. They aren't gonna change this, We gotta do it ourselves. They think that it's over, but it's just begun. Only one thing can save us, Only the young!”

“You just have to allow yourself to know that in your life, you’re going to make mistakes, so it’s not the end of the world if you do.”

“I want to love glitter and also stand up for the double standards that exist in our society. I want to wear pink and tell you how I feel about politics and I don’t think that those things have to cancel each other out.”

“May your struggles become inaudible background noise behind the loud, clergies voices of those who love and appreciate you.”

“May your heart remain breakable. But never by the same hand twice.”

I used to be like a golden retriever, just walking up to everybody, like, wagging my tail. “Sure, yeah, of course! What do you want to know? What do you need?” Now, I guess, I have to be a little bit more like a fox.

If you’re lucky enough to be different, never change.

“I hope you know that who you are is who you choose to be, and that whispers behind your back don't define you. You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.”

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

“I don’t think you are ever doing things perfectly, I think you always have room to improve and learn.”

“A lot of relationships can be very solid and that’s kind of what you hope for: solid and healthy. But that’s not what you always get. It doesn’t mean that it’s not special and extraordinary, just to have a relationship that’s fragile and somehow meaningful in that fragility.”

“One of the things that I’ve learned is life is really unpredictable and people can make forecasts, and they can make predictions, but those predictions and forecasts may not come true if there’s an unforeseeable factor involved. And that unforeseeable factor in this case was my fans.”