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" I can tell you I have dealt with mania my whole life. "

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" We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock! "

" I have people come up to me who love 'The Other Sister,' or 'Old School,' or 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.' "

" I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do. "

" Whatever I do, I'm always struggling to create a visceral experience. With my music, I'm more of a live performer these days. And film is such a different thing. It's where people sit in a dark theater. I want them to feel me as viscerally as if they were at a live show. "

" It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket. "

" I only wear SPF if I'm going to the beach. "

" I thrive on adversity. "

" So many actors and musicians seem to be only interested in what's expected of them, and they join the dots accordingly. I don't fit into any narrow categories as an actor or a singer. "

" Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever. "

" It's not my nature to dominate and bully. "

" Like everybody I have many different sides. "

Different Sides

" For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked. "

" I just care about what I get to unearth and what makes me uncomfortable and what makes me grow because, ultimately, I just don't want to ever play it safe. "

" I'm actually very moral and nurturing, but I'm also adventurous. I am challenging. "

" In my work, I'm always striving to be as honest as possible. "

" I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed. "

" I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady. "

" There is growth. Get out of the past. "

" Some people can't connect with their own emotions. "

" I think in my late 20s, I was starting to enter that realm of complacency, which is the most terrifying place I can imagine as an artist. I felt time creeping up on me. "

" Acting is me, but music is even more me. It's everything. "

" I didn't like school at all. I never liked the seven different classes system. I liked having just one, like in elementary school - less disruption. I liked history. I failed math and science and gave those teachers a hard time. "

" I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself. "

" The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid. "

" I'm so used to naysayers. "

" I always liken myself to the bearded lady. Because I'm an actress turned musician, a woman doing male-dominated rock & roll... I'm the oddity at the freak show, you know? "

" In movies like 'Cape Fear,' I never played verbal characters. Now, as a grown-up, I relish playing people that are not like myself. That's what I enjoy about acting. "

" It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain. "

" I was scared by social media - just scared of what I might attract. Once I broke onto that thing, because I needed it for my band to tell people about shows, I realized, 99 percent of the time, people are funny, clever, inventive, beautiful. "