Quotes from Hayley Williams

What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape.

Don't judge. Don't stay inside all the time. Get out and let somebody know who you are.

Paramore is a family. Once youre in it, youre in it for life.

The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.

It's one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it's the worst when friends become strangers,

Performing is the craziest workout for me, because I feel like, on the first day of tour, I'm going nuts. Halfway through, I'm just so tired but obviously you keep pushing yourself because you have fans watching you.

The best gift you can give yourself is an open mind.

Every time I listen to Eminem, I fall in love with music all over again.

The lyrics were my sarcastic way of realizing you can't be the king of the hill all the time.

I learn every day what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered.

The more music you love, the happier you will be.

There's a love that never changes, no matter what you've done.

Oh yeah, I don't eat a lot of candy on tour. When I get home, man, I love candy. Oh, man, and ice cream. I can't eat it on tour because of the sugar and my throat.

No, I'm not a vegetarian. I do eat that way. I actually eat vegan quite a lot. I feel better when I eat that way, and I think there's been a lot of proof that's come up over the last however many years, that you can't deny, I don't think, that meat or dairy aren't all that good for us.

The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception

To do what we love we miss the ones we love. Long distance letters and phone calls and anything to make the distance disappear! That's what this means to me.

Don't let pain define you. I do that a lot... but we can fight it all together. That's what I love about us and our fans. we fight together.

Love that so many of you are saying your 2 fav bands are Green Day & Paramore. Do you even realize how cool that is for us to hear!?

Now I've gone for too longLiving like I'm not aliveSo I'm going to start over tonightBeginning with you and I

You don't need anyone's permission to be exactly who you want to be

'Looper' was so brilliant, and it took me forever to finally see it, but the way that movie ends and the message behind that is so selfless.

I wake up in the morning and sometimes I just want to wear a T-shirt and blue jeans and now I have to force myself to do that, because I can't care what people think, you know?