I think it's important to have mystique.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

The thread connecting one person, one event, to another exists only in the imagination.

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

All critics should be assassinated.

You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.