I've been writing songs since I was a wee child.

Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.

I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.

I don't believe there's a hole in the ground with demons in it but I could be wrong. Hell is all around us - it's the way we treat each other and the way we treat the Earth. We already live in it.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'

If one is destined to go wrong, he will not believe the truth but will believe something else altogether.

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.

You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart.

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.

As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.