"I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best."

"I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming."

"I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going."

"I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band."

"Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed."

"I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more."

"We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do."

"I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics."

"But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul."

"I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image."

"Being offended is part of being in the real world."

"Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything."

"Only dumb people are happy."

"I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!"

"I cannot exist as a solo artist."

"I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky."

"Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!"

"I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman."

"I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it."

"I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record."

"My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes."

"I was interested in being in Fight Club, but I wanted Edward's part, but since they're not going to hand a girl those parts you have to manifest destiny and not complain, bitch or whine."

"I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me."

"I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired."

"What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars."

"Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly."

"Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point."

"You need to write on your own and produce your own life."

"Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together."

"It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game."

"You gotta be able to change worlds."

"Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me."

"I'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV!"

"Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion."

"In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction."

"The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good."

"My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher."

"I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel."

"I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did."

"Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering."

"I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature."

"I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist."

"If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it."

"I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me."