I'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV!

[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.

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.

I want to be the girl with the most cake.

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

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