It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

You know, Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.

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.

I have an excellent father, his strength is making me stronger.

Falling in love isn't as easy as it seems when you've seen love crash and burn right in front of your eyes.

I think it's important that you know that I will never change. But I'll never stay the same either

Through it all nobody gets me like you do.