Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional, crazy heart.

Do not confuse your horizon with the edge of the world.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am

I'm a very spiritual person. And it affects my work greatly.

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.