I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

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.

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

I’m sort of like Costco. I’m big, I’m not fancy and I dare you to not like me.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

Musicians are not so concerned with language.

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.