“Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.”

“People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up”

“When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone.”

“I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.”

“If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.”

“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.”