Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is a subtle form of disease.

Players have two things to do: Play and keep their mouths shut.

A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.

Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves...After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.

it wont be possible to be famouse without courage.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.