Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry.'

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

We've made houses for hatred. It's time we made a place where people's souls may be seen and made safe.

To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer.