I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

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.

I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.

1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.

As long as you're going to be thinking, think big.

Everybody's family has problems.

Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow