Catie Curtis

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.