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

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.

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've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

Dare yourself to make something great out of the things you have always seen as your limitations in life.

—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

You can't put this possum in a cage

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

I've always stayed really close with my mother and my father.

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.