Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.
'Sexy' doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.
You can't move mountains by whispering at them.
I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.
I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.
Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.
Sage is cleansing and sacred.
For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.
Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.
I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'
When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.
Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.
I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.
Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.
For me, there is only love and fear.
I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.
My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'
Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.
My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.
