You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.

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

Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it’s not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn’t been boy-centric.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine