All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.

If you want to be noticed as a drop of water, why would you move to the ocean?

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.

We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

She re-read his email four times, feeling offended and breathless, like he had casually grabbed her head and stuffed it into a pile of wet leaves.

When we will learn to be nonjudgmental with ourselves and to others this world will see the peace forever.

She wasn't to know there was no room for Soren - or any other boy - in my heart. There was only one boy taking up that place.Luca.

Live with style and passion

You are all I ever need.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.

Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine.