I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

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.

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

When I stepped out from doing films and had a dark period, I never did anything dark on a set, so I never made enemies on a set. I never was a bad girl on a set; I always considered films a really sacred space, so when I had my problems, I had them very much away from the film community.