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" Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs. "
Mean
People
Tough
" Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am. "
Just
Who
Always
" Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album. "
Me
Always
Death
" Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world. "
World
Serious
Environmental
" For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent. "
Challenge
Different
Me
" Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything. "
Me
Parents
Young
" God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person. "
Kind
God
Always
" I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me. "
Living
Food
Insects
" I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules. "
Young
Women
Rules
" If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people. "
Yourself
Believe In Yourself
People
" If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully. "
Bully
Yourself
You
" I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll. "
Rock N Roll
World
Roll
" I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough? "
Family
Dream
Brother
" I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable. "
Think
Work
Clothes
" I love school. I was a great student. "
I Love
Great
School
" I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. "
Peace
Nature
Science
" I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do. "
Out
Strength
Think
" Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together. "
Physics
Strong
Together
" My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. "
Who
Myself
I Am
" Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate. "
Anticipation
Nobody
Knows
" Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman. "
Me
My Life
People
" People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do. "
See
People
Doing
" People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it. "
Always
You
People
" Pop music is not a threatening style of music. "
Style
Pop Music
Music
" The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny. "
You
Your Dreams
Dreams
" You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends. "
You
Fake
Friends
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