I’m not perfect, but I’m always me.

I'm not a creature of your government's creation. I'm not a creature of any government's creation. I answer to a higher power, and that higher power is music.

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it.

Suffering is the fire that purifies the soul.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

我不是一个生活在恐惧中的女孩。我是一个生活在自由中的女孩。

"I think people are very interested in the idea of the family, and the idea of the family as a kind of battleground."