I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.

The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.

It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.

I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.

I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake

Why should I downplay myself to make someone else more comfortable?

It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

I'm a pussycat unless you do something to one of my friends. Then I'll think of unique ways to get back at you. I'm more creative than your average bear.

A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it. It's fun to be no-holds-barred and have no big crisis of conscious.

Making a name for yourself comes from working hard

If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell!

I guess really having a good support group around me and talking about what I've gone through is important.

There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.

Honest, intelligent criticism is an aid to the progress of an effort.

Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.

I'm signed to Atlantic through 300 Entertainment [Lyor Cohen's label]. That is my only contractual relationship.