"I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one."

"I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think."

"I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what."

"When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl."

"When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer."

"Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language."

"It is a subtle truth that in the quiet sanctuary of self-reflection, the soul finds its rhythm."

"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."