I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine.

When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system.

I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had.

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.

To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

Education is not a luxury, it is a basic human right.

When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done.