Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

I had found The Runaways and I had seen Foxes, and I decided I was just gonna become a juvie, like Cherie Currie.

It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.