A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
It's a torturous time when you learn almost everything you really have to know about survival. The important thing to remember when you are living through it, however, is that you have absolutely no idea quite how smart and strong and beautiful the pain will make you. So go forth and suffer...you'll rule the world.
I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.
I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life.
What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.
I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.
We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.
I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.
I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl.
I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.
Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
You know, it doesn’t matter how beautiful you are, if you don’t have anything interesting to say, then you’re still boring.
Here am I. I'm 38. My career's probably never been better. And I've made a decision which may or may not impact on it - I refuse to hide my experience and my age, as if it's something I should be ashamed of. I'm alive. I know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody.
It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.
One day I realized that it didn't matter whether people loved me or not.
I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.
Dear Kanye West. It is YOU who is so busy disrespecting artistry. You disrespect your own remarkable talents and more importantly you disrespect the talent, hard work and tenacity of all artists when you go so rudely and savagely after such an accomplished and humble artist like BECK.
If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.
A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
