American Quotes

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

I'm a good person.

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you the

I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.

God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up that's all.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.

It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or who's been around me ten minutes knows it too.

You gotta have fun.

You forget about it whether it was 15-2 or 3-2. It's still a loss. It doesn't matter what the score was if we win tomorrow.

My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.

My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.