With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Sometimes you just have to go and make a mess of things to get people to pay attention.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

I think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

This is for fighting, this is for fun.

Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.