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" Over time, I've loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock. "

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" Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude. "

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

" I've never been like Angelina Jolie, who at one time was spewing out this prototype Bad Girl stuff for people to consume. I've never boxed myself in that way. People can create boxes for me by all means, but it doesn't mean I'm going to step inside them. "

" There' s a duality in myself, and it's also what I try and instill in my roles. "

" All this primal energy people respond to in me and my characters is in my music, 10 times more. "

" It's only artists who can help artists. "

" I've been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself. "

" I thrive on adversity. "

" The mainstream media is funded by pharmaceutical companies, so when you have the biggest movie star in the world at the time - Tom Cruise - coming out against anti-depressants and Ritalin... they still brutalize him. "

" My brother has endless footage of us as kids because he had a video camera when we were growing up. The trippiest part was my younger self predicting my future path, like a truth-seer. "

" I don't have an explosive temper. People seem to think that - maybe somewhere lives the lion in my cage. But I'm actually kind of goofy. "

" My eyebrows are a mess. They're skinny; they're dodgy. "

" I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel. "

" I have such a beautiful, strong family and friends, and they are like everything to me. "

" 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. "

" Any time you start judging with an overly critical eye rather than letting things just be, and following what you think is right, it's complicated to find balance. "

" My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure. "

" In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble. "

" I walk into a restaurant, and people stare as though I've just landed from another planet. Every time I walk out in public, it's like the alien freak show has arrived. It does have its advantages. I hardly ever get bothered by the paparazzi, probably because of some of the more edgy characters I've played in movies. "

" When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well. "

" Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work. "

" 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? "

" All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life. "

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" Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out. "

" 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. "

" TV is wild. You just play the role you're given, and you show up and do the best that you can. "

" My first tour I did was The Warped Tour, and I was likening myself to the bearded lady at the circus because not only was I an actor touring, doing rock n' roll, but I was also a female front person making really muscular, male-dominated rock music. "

" For my rock band, I was influenced by things like 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' For me, it's live rock n' roll theater. "