I don't really care if you think I'm strange--I ain't gonna change!

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.

A book is a treasure of life.

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.

I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.

Every wolf's and lion's howl Raises from Hell a human soul.