I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity or my naivete.

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.

Not to understand is profound

Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.

The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.