I classify myself as a student and a teacher. This year, I'm back into the student. I try to stay balanced. I learn so much every time I walk about my door.

I believe you can remember the future as much as the past

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.

I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does.

My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

You don't realize 'till you get here what a moment in history you're a part of.

Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.

I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.

Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice

This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.

Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.