The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

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.

We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions.

It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain.

I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

If you want to be great, do it. There’s nothing holding you back. It’s all in your control.