I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

I'm not a control freak.

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

I read on the Internet that I was dead.

How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.