Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

In every situation, we can find sacred lesson.

Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

I never saw him fight. I never saw Billy fight.

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined.

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?