Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.

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.

Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

Can't even see without my vintage Versace frames. I don't go nowhere without them on. I can't even live without them. Every time I throw them on, I see all the haters, and I see where the money at.

Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.

I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.

I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.

I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.

When you are completely satisfied with what you have made, you're pretty much done as a director. So when that happens, that'll sort of be the end.

It is a $270 billion cut in medicare