Cecil Castellucci is writing Shade, who is the perfect writer for it. I love her young adult stuff, and it's pretty hardcore and visceral, so I knew she was going to bring that to the book.

I feel like theres so many people out there who have the kids in the palm of their hand, listening but there are so few people saying something

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU!

Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself.

Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching