I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.

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.

Give life a purpose to pursue.

we always knewthat good times camewith termination contractseven if we weren't quite readyto sign it.

And you don't have to pinch me to see if I'm real, either. How about you just place your hand in mine while we walk to the store, then you can see just how real I am, firsthand.

I've even said to other countries - I've said, "Listen, you're charging us a lot. We're going to charge you the same thing." They shrug their shoulders. They can't fight it.

I need a healthy injection of cynicism right now.

I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.

The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.