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.

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.

Still in my mind the old days scenario is playing OVER AND OVER

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride.

I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.

Allow the Taliban to open offices in Pakistan

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

I do what I do because there's nothing else for me to do. This is what I'm supposed to be doing.

If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.

I see money as a reflection of how much impact you're having on the world. I see money as a metaphor in a way.

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.