A girl can do what she wants to do / And that's what I'm gonna do.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

Do notforget duty. But choose love when you can.

Excluding the God of providence in your life’s configuration and design is like removing the thermostat from a thermodynamic system.

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.