It's really hard seeing somebody you love be in pain and be ill and there's nothing you can do. What's interesting is people act in so many different ways. You know, some people run away, some people get angry, some people fall apart. It's like everybody has a different way of dealing with stuff like that.

My brother is the one that gives me the strength - if he's not strong, I'm not.

I've learned that all you can be in this world is you. No matter how much you mess with yourself, with surgery or you know, clothes or cut your hair differently or how much you wish and pray and dream that you're gonna wake up as someone else, it's never gonna happen. You have one life and one opportunity, and all you can be is the best you.

Dress how you feel and love what you wear because at the end of the day you have got to wear and feel great in it.

Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.

Even now I don't consider myself skinny, but I have put a lot of hard work into my body over the years, and in the process, I've really learned to love myself.

I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.