"Trying to figure out this life .”

"Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.”

“I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.”

"My dream was always to hop up on stage in front of my peminat-peminat every night and perform.”

“To understand me, anda have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.”

“I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others think.”

“I liked being a minor because anda can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.”

“Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.”

“i dont want to be compared to britney,ashlee,hilary atau lindsay. i want to be compared to me.”

“People are like, 'Well, she doesn't know the Sex Pistols.' Why would I know that stuff? Look how young I am. That stuff's old, right?”

“I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.”

"I want to be played on the radio. I want to have bahagian, atas 40 hits,”

"When I'm utama I go out with my friends. I go shopping, I go to Kelab and I go to movies, ... There's just a certain way anda have to do it, and I know how to handle myself and I know how to take care of myself and where I can and can't go and when I can and can't go. It's all do-able. I still have a life. I may have to work a little harder at it, but that's totally fun because most of the time I'm busy anyway.”

“In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too, ... In Europe, for some reason, I see a lot lebih males in the audience. In Japan, I don't even notice any kids, partially because they're a lot lebih strict about peminat behavior over there.”

“Well it's so true because I was only 17 -- I was right out of high school, I didn't even finish,”

“I'm with anda , ... Could it be any lebih obvious?”

"When I get really upset, I go to my guitar. I feel like it's my therapist."

"I write about whatever's on my heart."

"Girls and guys can relate to my songs. They are deep and emotional. I wrote those lyrics when I was trying to survive."

"I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My Muzik is not for people like you!'"

"I'm a chick with edge. I like to rock out, have fun, and 'cause trouble."

"I'd wear baggy size-32 pants and hoodies. I was a little badass."

"I created punk for this hari and age. Do anda see Britney walking around wearing ties and Singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. People look up to me and want to be me. And that's fine, just don't try to copy the sh** I do!"

"I won't let people push me around. If I did, I'd probably look like another Britney Spears."

"I always go with my gut and stand up for what I believe in. I'm a fighter. I fight for what I want."

"When things are very real and honest, they don't go away."

"I'm a person with a ton of energy who likes to scream and party and rock out. And there are other sides of me that are real serious."

"I've definitely grown a lot in that whole period - especially as a person."

"I come out dressing the way I always dress and people are like, 'Oh, that's fake.' Ciuman my a** that's fake, anda don't know me."

"I'm not into gloss and glamour.But now i'm just trying to fit with the world"

"I don't really care if my clothes are wrinkled atau there's a stain on my shirt. Going out on the road, your clothes are dirty."

"I think because I was brought up in a Christian home, I was kind of careful not to swear in my lyrics."

"School gave me an inferiority complex, I never did my work, was always talking, and failed all my tests because I ddin't try. I would be throwing M&Ms and the English teacher would say, 'Stop that atau I'm going to make anda leave the room.' And I'd be like, 'That's what I want.' So I'd keep throwing them, get kicked out, and grab my skateboard and go skate."

"I was always getting into trouble, getting sent to the principal's office and getting suspen- well a couple of times I was suspended."

"Pink's pretty cool. She's just kinda like a poser."

"People like Shakira shouldn't have record contracts. She can't even speak English."

"I don't want to be no fake pop sh**."

"When I was 2 my mom berkata she knew I was going to be a singer. I`ve been performing ever since I was a young kid. So I`ve known I wanted to do this for awhile. I always knew in my hati, tengah-tengah that I`d be singing."

"I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I`m also a hopeless romantic inside."

"Actually, I know for a fact there are some young female artists who don`t even sing on their own records and who don`t sing live. And that is pathetic. (about lipsynching)"

"My mom wouldn`t let me sing `Strawberry Wine` because it had `wine` in it."

"People ask me if I regret wasting my last teen years on becoming a singer. anda know something? I don`t. Because Singing is my life. When and if anda want something so badly you`ll see. I mean, I`m just so blessed to be doing what I Cinta to do and to have be."

"I have my own style that happens to be different from everyone else in Hollywood. My inspiration is me."