And if somebody's going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that's something I have to come up with myself.

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.

It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.

Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

There were no fear of death in children’s eyes because they had seen hanging, stoning to death and chopping heads in playgrounds and parks.

Okay, ” he said, his breath hitching, his hands shaking like hell as he pried her arms from around his neck and set her

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.

I like America's diversity and its landscapes.

Cut the "im" out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear-possible.