I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.

Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.

A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.