We all dream about love, want to be in love, and have been hurt by love.

That's the thing with love: It's going to be wrong until it's right.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Beauty is sincerity.There are so many different ways someone can be beautiful.

I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard

I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet.

Say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying 'I could've, but it's too late now.'