I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

I will never fit in because I was not meant to

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

A divided mind cannot conquer a united soul.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.

Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong.

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

It matters only that you manifest your genius; it doesn’t matter when. It’s never too late or too early.

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.