I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.

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.

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty

Now go with me and with this holy manInto the chantry by: there, before him, And underneath that consecrated roof, Plight me the full assurance of your faith.

Haven't you enough money?'For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.

Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.

Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.

I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.

If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.

You can't bomb a people just in case.

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.