I love Cate Blanchett: she takes risks, but is still refind.

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.

The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.

It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.

I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.

I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.

I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake

Why should I downplay myself to make someone else more comfortable?

It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

I'm a pussycat unless you do something to one of my friends. Then I'll think of unique ways to get back at you. I'm more creative than your average bear.

Kindness is always fashionable.

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived.

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.