I don't know if people realize how much I tour and how much time I spend writing, but I really enjoy it.

Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.

I think I would probably die without my eyeliner, but besides that I'm pretty basic.

I'm a little fighter and I stand up for what I believe in.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

Every person faces their own unique challenges and you may not always know what others around you are going through.

I have always looked for ways to give back because I think it's a responsibility we all share.

I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.

The only fear is fear itself, so get rid of it.

She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.

I can be very shy...but when I'm around people I know, I can be extremely loud.

It's a waste of time worrying about something that worry won't fix. It's about as useful as trying to feed your pet rock.

My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.

Over the years, I became more and more interested in the forms and techniques in which things could be said.

I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.

Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else.

There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.