The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

Look athow deeply flawedwe areand yet capable of lovingso perfectly.

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

German economic salvation has been brought about solely through the efforts of the German people and the experience they have gained. Countries abroad have contributed nothing to this.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.

Technology has limitations on what it can accomplish. You do not.

A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

Life is short...eat desert first!