When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through

The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.

I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he comes around and his name is, like, Steve, what are you supposed to do?

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here

I've never met anyone that is their image.

You could either go the traditional way or the other way. I went the other way.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

You know all my needs and wants, you know hundreds of small things about me! You also know I am madly falling in love with you, You even know when I am staring at you! You know how much I desire you!

-There must be balance. Action and reaction. Chaos and order. Death and life.

Every time somebody says 'Islamophobia' it gives the people who are intimidating cover.

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

When you can't be sure of anything else in this crapped- on world, you have to be sure of yourself.

The examined life is no picnic.

You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena) That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace)

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.