It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

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.'

The more success a person has in life, the greater the danger of fornication can become.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests.

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.

Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

Sometimes, niña, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given.

Climate change is my greatest concern.

The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.

God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.