Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.

NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.

Tears are words the heart can't express

Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.

Failure is the secret to success because doing it wrong is apart of doing it right.

I have travelled many places but still I find that perhaps the greatest journey is through one's own mind.

Being successful is not determined by the amount of money you make but by the amount of lives you affect and influence for the better.

Mantovani was a great influence on me.

My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.

Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.

Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.

Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.