Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally.

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object and to this day it mystifies me.

Cocaine is like really evil coffee.

Only dumb people are happy.

I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

I was thinking...""We know, " Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them?

All ideas grow out of other ideas

No one is self-sufficient. And it's not a one-way thing- -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so as to not affront the Lord.

Christophe's smile was a marvel of edged sweetness. When he grinned like that he looked handsomer than ever, the hint of danger just about threatening to stop a girl's heart.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.