I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to work, to being creative, because I have written several of my books there. I find it so much easier because you're cut off. If you don't want to speak to anybody, basically they don't know where you are. And it's so beautiful.

Jennifer Aniston is cute, but I wouldn't call her beautiful. I think that is why Cheryl Cole is so popular, because she is just so pretty and the public are starved of gorgeous people. When I was young, everybody on screen was gorgeous.

If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!

I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.

The clothes were a huge part of what made 'Dynasty' fun.

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

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.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

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.

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.

I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.

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.

For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.

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.

Things work in cycles.

If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.

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.

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

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.

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.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

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.

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

My job is intense. It's very physical.

Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

I'm a good person.

I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.

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?

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

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.

I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.'