There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

I think you're conditioned, especially in America, that there is this line you have to walk down. Anybody who wants to move off that path at any point in their life is my hero. Anybody who goes off that path has to wrestle with that.

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

There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.

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.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.