I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don't want to be a robot!

I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.

She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.

I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.

one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.