I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

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.

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

Use your special gifts to fulfil your divine purpose.

Men's evil manners live in brass

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

I acknowledge that we are all human and are on a journey. We are not born perfect, mistakes are inevitable.

I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?

There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

George Bush is guilty of murder for the deaths of over 4000 young American soldiers who have died in the Iraqi war.