I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

I’m no hillbilly singer.

I’m a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it’s a process I’ve been doing since I was younger.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

That little Miley Cyrus… she’s like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she’s Hannah Montana, but what people don’t realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she’s 40 years old!

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.

I’m trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, ‚I’m different. I’m not just a comedian.‘ I’m trying to become a rock star.

Man, I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working – when I first moved to Nashville – in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

I don’t have no favorite rock bands. I’m a fan of rock music, though.

I love Chris Brown. He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best singers out there.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I’m a singer, a writer and an actress – when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

There’s always gonna be rock n‘ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n‘ roll records, and there will always be rock n‘ roll.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It’s the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

I’m a writer first and a singer second.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

Because you have things like ‚American Idol‘ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I don’t really like to call myself a brand, and I don’t like to think of myself as a brand. I’m a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that’s not my focus.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

I’m half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I’d be in a hell of a mess!

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.

Rock music is niche.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.