Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life.

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes

There are lots of poster children for angst. But there aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl. But what about the people who are really not feeling that great? Why can't I get up in front of millions of people, as a person who represents my generation, and tell them that I'm angry? Who puts these limits on what my personality should be in public?