The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

Focusing on the beauty of life is insight. Enjoying the beauty of life is happiness.

Having power and position in the spiritual realm still doesn’t mean that you are reigning inreal life

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

That old star that you been wishin' on is shining mighty bright, but it's the fire inside your heart that's gonna lead you to the light.

Think pink, but don't wear it.

The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.