The greatest trick you can teach an old dog is how to learn new tricks.

I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

One time I was singing along with a boy that looked like me in the crowd and he pushed away the mic and started making out with me and accidently bit my lip and I had to get stitches.

Usually, old ladies tell me to find Jesus. Look, I'm just trying to find some chai and a good vegan muffin.

Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for our own disgusting dietary and fashion wants and needs.

Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

I'm a moron because I don't want to lie in a gutter puking over myself... yeah right

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.

To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.

My men are my money.

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty.

I've pretty much done records with everybody.