Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.