If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.

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.

Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life.

When things went dark and you search for a light to see things clearly, that light is guidance. Don't wait for it, actually you have to search for it.

Laws ... would be useless on the moon.

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

I want girls to have an imprint of self-love firmly in place at a young age.

You’re a goner, Donovan. When a hungry man spends more time lookin’ at his woman than eatin’ , he’s in trouble.

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

The only valid starting point is to understand what we all share - we have to find what we can all agree on.

Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

I get up, because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I’d stay in my seat for the rest of time.