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.

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.

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.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself.

My heart was oaken before you set it on fire. It will continue to smolder, long after the flame that ignited it has gone.

Only the Saviour saves souls.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

Character + Chance = Success

Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young.

A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.