I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.

If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.

I think when things get hard with your family, it's really easy to want to isolate yourself. The world is so harsh, so when stuff happens outside, you want to go to your family, but when stuff happens inside your family, you sort of start to feel like, 'I'm alone. There is no place I can go to where just nothing will happen to me.'

I believe one's responsibility as a role model begins and ends with their perception of what a good role model is.

I think a lot of people think I'm either unintelligent because I'm a very happy person and I have a lot of energy or that it's a fake happiness, like fake energy. I completely understand that because it's a lot to handle, and I am a very emotional human being.

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years old that was my grandfather's, and I still carry it around with me.