“A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance.”

“My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.”

“I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper.”

“A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance.”

“Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.”

“[What do you want to be when you grow up?] "A wrecker of civilizaton”