Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.

I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.

I don't believe there's a hole in the ground with demons in it but I could be wrong. Hell is all around us - it's the way we treat each other and the way we treat the Earth. We already live in it.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb...

Nobody likes the "A" word, but everyone ages. You can have an aging in place master suite that looks like a resort hotel, rather than a rehab hospital room.

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.

I guess to the outside observer, all my movies look like musty old black-and-white artifacts, but my earlier movies had been more static and tableaux-ish.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.

We where created to discover Love - the only reality.