Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

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.

Education and assimilation were devastatingly effective at controlling a conquered people.

Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.

Critical thinking is a necessary and vital skill".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.

I am very intense. I can't help it. That's the way I am. You can't be in this business without being intense. The pressure and tension get to you; it can't help but show on you.

The more things change, the more they stay different.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

I don't know what to say, except I love Ryan Dunn and I'm really going to miss him.

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.