For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.

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.

Let your choice be: reject the wrong, but choose the right.

I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of mestanding back, watching, thinking, “Is this as good as it gets?

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.

I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

English culture is highly literary-based.

If your life's worth living, it's worth recording.

The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.