The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.

We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.

If you want to be noticed as a drop of water, why would you move to the ocean?

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.

We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

Ana was a tornado. A jagged, hundred-sided peg in a community where everyone was supposed to fit into round holes.

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.

Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.

If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!

The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.

He who has no confidence utters falsehoods, and he who utters falsehoods has no confidence.

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.