With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence.

My love for animals started before I can remember.

People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special.

What we do to animals directly impacts everything, because we are all connected. It disrupts the food chain, it funds terrorism (ivory), it changes our climate, our oceans, it starts wars.

If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're superior, then we won't have it much longer. We're facing a very turbulent, war-torn, drought-ridden existence for future generations unless we act now.

I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.