As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

Not because I'm a christian doesn't mean I'm not human

I have everything I had twenty years ago only it's all a little bit lower.

I just want to take a realistic look now, now that we have enough distance.

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

I believe the only limitations are the ones that we accept.

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

You really have one bite at the apple.