Everybody acts like I'm nuts. I'm not nuts I just want to feel it all.

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.

I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

No, I don't believe in the wasting of time, But I don't believe that I'm wasting mine

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.

Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

These days I don't know who really likes me. I always assume most people are bullshitting me.

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

If women want to be appreciated for what we're saying, we've got to wear turtlenecks and long pants.

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes

I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way/ And say I've been getting along/ For long before you came into the play.

I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it.

I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

When you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself.

I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

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