I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.

We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.

If you want to be noticed as a drop of water, why would you move to the ocean?

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.

We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

In Chile they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. I am not a Latin American creator.

I love roles where I have to transform myself.

I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

It is sexy in here or is it just me?

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.