Have you made any plans? Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself. All those things together? It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

No one survives life.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

For me, music begins where words end.

Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.

All that means is that I'll be 783 years old when I catch Scotty Bowman.

Every person that you meet knows at least one thing that you don't. Don't let them leave without learning it.

I love being backstage, or doing littler things like Blame Canada.

True generosity must benefit both parties. No woman can control her destiny if she doesn't give to herself as much as she gives of herself.