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I started chanting when I was living on Hollywood Boulevard, working as a stripper. Within six months, I got my first million dollars and I didn’t have to strip for bucks any more. Then I met Kurt and we still chanted, but we did a lot of drugs together.
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When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to start bands. It's a bummer that girls have to respond to rock artists sexually instead of, like, 'wow, me too!'.
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Does that make you happy, Mr. Rock & Roll Fantasy? You know what? Eddie Vedder’s gonna live to be 98. How’s that make you feel, huh? I love you, come back. You come back! You love us. You love me, don’t you? You love Frances. Where are you? Are you happier now?
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I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
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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.
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I do wish I ruled the world, I think it'd be a better place.
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But, you know, all good rock is easy.
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I try to place beautiful imagery next to fucked up imagery, because that's how I view things … I sometimes feel that no one's taken the time to write about certain things in rock, that there's a certain female point of view that's never been given space.
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When I post, I forget I’m famous. It’s a really bad thing.
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LA is easier. People have garages. And then as you go up the coast, in Washington and Oregon people have bigger houses and bigger garages, and people have parents.
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Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.
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There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.
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Don’t eat cheese. There are a million things to eat that are not cheese.
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I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.
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I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.
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I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.
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For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.
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I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.
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But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.
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Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!
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Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto.
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When you're feeling overwhelmed in business, one smart idea can beat the biggest Super Bowl ad.
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There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.
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The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.