Everything that happens with me gets made out to be a fiasco, but I have every right to do everything I've ever done. I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.

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.

Our efforts make the world go around.

Skill to do comes of doing.

Religion is the opium of the people.

This boy turkied my Thanksgiving, but I won't let him Grinch my Christmas. -Dean Hughes (Midway to Heaven)

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

I would love to produce a film.

Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.