“Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.”

“I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.”

“I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.”

“I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.”

“We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that's what they call character,I guess that's just the way it goes,better to be dusty than polished,like some store window mannequin,why don't you touch me where i'm rusty,let me stain your hands”

“It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.”

“I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.”