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

“I don't want to give 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 have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I try to keep the corruption minimal. And though I advocate learning from my mistakes as much as making mistakes, I also try and make sure my mistakes do not cost other people.”

“I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.”

“I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano?”

“I tell you how I feelBut you don't careI say tell me the truthBut you don't dareYou say love is a hellYou cannot bearAnd I say gimme mineBack and then go thereFor all I care.”

“And I could liken you to a lot of things But I always come around 'Cause in the end I'm a sensible girl I know the fiction of the fix”