"There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl."

"When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone."

"The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false."

"I want to be like the patron saint of reality."

"The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?"

"I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore."

"I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while."

"My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?"

"I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while."

"For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically."

"Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected."

"The quick success was a bit strange to get used to."

"I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic."

"I read on the Internet that I was dead."

"What's really good is African drum music."

"I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't."

"I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal."

"I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it."

"I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right."

"I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment."

"I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes."

"I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible."

"If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me."

"I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now."

"Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe."

"Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice."

"I'm not a control freak."

"I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how."

"I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed."

"I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear."

"Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff."

"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."

"I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it."

"I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons."

"I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day."