I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

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.

Spirituality exist in testing and experiencing the depth of inner peace consistently.

Desire is to ask for something in silence, without really wanting it, for having it wouldn't fill you as much as having desired it.

Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.

I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.

Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.

No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.

We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.

That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.