I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

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.

Bidden or unbidden, God is present.

O' melancholy, hectic chill for human soul, herewith dismal presence, any spirit does descent.

His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.

I learned to smile, avoiding happiness advice.

Creating happens in the midst of chaos.

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

Tell freedom I said hello.' 'If I happen to see it, I will.

When you get knocked down you get knocked down in Round 1 of life, there's Round 2.