The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

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.

I'm always sketchy of people who don't like grits.

If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.

A wise son maketh a glad father.

America is never great. America is great in what it can be, which is the American dream.

There is no education but self-education.

It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.

That brings us to iPad. We think the iPad is the poster-child of the post-PC world.