All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.

Learning to be extremely disciplined has been the key for me. I work really hard during work hours and family really hard during family hours. Family does always come first though, in any situation.

What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun.

My favourite thing about touring is really the shows, because early on you can say it's definitely things like travel and seeing the world and stuff like that, but over time you don't really get to see the world. The most important thing in the day is the show. So that's why I do it.

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

I think everybody's book is about somebody's daughter, in a lot of ways. I dig that.

The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you're in like Hawaii, then you can't hide.