People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

I was able to take that first step to freedom.

That what you think that you are, that, you are

The biggest battle in life is to change the negative stories we tell ourselves

Never do something for just one reason.

When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?

I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.

Salander was afraid of no-one and nothing. She realized that she lacked the necessary imagination - and that was evidence enough that there was something wrong with her brain.

my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.

The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.