I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

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.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

The goal of all life is to have a ball.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.

I love dressing for the winter - especially in baggy chunky cardigans.

I don't even know half the time what I'm nominated for.

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.