You can become something you don't want to become, but it's a change, a new phase. Hopefully one you want.

There are people that will try to hurt you and hold you down.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.

If you took every pop song to heart, you'd be a bleeding romantic with a crushed heart every five minutes.

I remember my parents yelling at each other and at me from an early age, and I remember a lot of things smashing. I try to look for the happy memories from the brief time my parents were married, and I can't really recall that. From the start things were messed up, and I just kept moving through the years and trying to pick out the little bits of evidence that would help me prove to myself that it wasn't my doing. But it took finding out somebody really does love me, who's not my parents or a relative, to really know that I was loveable.

You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.