It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

That’s my dream. It’s always the same. Always. Every little detail. And every time I have it, it’s just as scary as the last.(…)It’s so real, I feel as if I’ve already died hundreds of times.

Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

Some people take pictures, I write songs.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Make chance essential.

I treat everybody the same. You know I love to be with people: the youngsters.