I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

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.

Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.

When you feel your child truly loves you back, it makes you wish you had kissed your parents more.

There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.