I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it.

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.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility

No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.

The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

Fame made me develop a panic disorder.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.