Can't break free from the things that you do. I wanna walk, but I run back to you, that's why I hate myself for loving you.

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 hope for what we long to behold.

Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It's supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.

It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.

Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

The child must come first above all else. And pace yourself every day. There is quite a lot you will have to give up.

I am convinced that different people awaken different beasts in you.

Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

I cannot explain my plays. Each must find out for himself what is meant