I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' "It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.

I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.

Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.

Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.