If women want to be appreciated for what we're saying, we've got to wear turtlenecks and long pants.

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.

The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.

The price of living seems to always be death.

Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.

For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

The life of your dreams, everything you would love to be, do or have, has always been closer to you than you knew, because the power to everything you want is inside you.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.