If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

I will never censor myself to please anyone.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me

I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather.

Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

It's nice to see how the suffering does away in time. It always does

Immortality is the new twenty!

You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.

School is a hospital where people recover from ignorance

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.

Your day usually goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. The most powerful single thing you can do to influence others is to smile at them.

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.