"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between."

"Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."

"I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess."

"Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant."

"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."

"It is a profound truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't."

"I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different."