The first song I wrote was the first song I remember thinking, "Well, maybe I can do something here." The very first one. By the second one I knew I could do something.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

Once you die, that’s it – game over.

One man carries salvation and damnation from the desert.

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same.

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

So the guy who shot Gadhafi was wearing a Yankees cap. Did you see that? If he'd had a Boston Red Sox hat on he probably would have missed.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Sometimes you lose some friends and you get new ones.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that cant get through the mesh to bite you.

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.