While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really...motivated by psychological disturbance.

It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs...and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue...and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up...Don't you think that must mean something?

I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches..There’s no way to tell anyone who hasn’t been through it, there’s no way to explain it to anyone who hasn’t tasted it . To keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day, so that I radiate sunshine

I'm greedy; I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends . . . to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day . . . so that I'd radiate sunshine.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part.

I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches.