His ears are perked but he isn't listening.

I can hear his thoughts drifting on to his own subject and away from mine...

"You can ride with me, Madi talks too much."

"What you have to say is important, just not right now."

"Honey, I can't think right now."

So fine! If my own family won't listen, hopefully you people will.

I wanna be heard by my heroes,

As childish as that sounds.

But band members and other icons have their own lives...and with that I am at peace.

Listen up, Mr. President! I know you want to help people like me.

Both my parents work good jobs and yet college is set to dent their bank account.

I'm a woman in a conservative state, but I know you've got my back.

Listen up, Twitter! 185 followers who don't appreciate my Tweets-what's the point?

I know it doesn't really matter that I'm not Twitter famous, but I just thought maybe...

Maybe someone I've never met would like my voice, even just 140 characters at a time.

LA, New York? Tune in to me now. I want to contribute tax money to you.

I want to work for your television shows, write all the actors' lines and never get credit

Until it crawls up the screen at the end of the night.

But who do I really want to reach with my words? That's easy.

I want everyone who thinks I'm crazy but doesn't say it to my face to hear me now.

I know it's a hard life, writing for TV. But I'm willing to take a leap to see where I get.

Just do me a favor, world. Don't ever tell me to be quiet again.