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'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.

How did we get to the point where we're paying for bottled water? I imagine it was some weird marketing meeting over in France.

Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.

Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown

Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

What is the meaning of life? Life has the meaning that you give it.