I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

When I was a teenager in the '80s, I was the only girl in the guitar shop. Now if you walk into a music store, it's mostly teenage girls. It's great! It's an expansion of possibilities for young women, finding a way to tools even if they aren't directly handed those tools by adults.

I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.

Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!

we can't afford to do anyone harm because we owe them our lives each breath is recycled from someone else's lungs our enemies are the very air in disguise you can talk a great philosophy but if you can't be kind to people every day it doesn't mean that much to me it's the little things you do the little things you say it's the love you give along the way

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.