“Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.”

“Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.”

“Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.”

“Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!”

“I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.”

“I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.”

“I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.”

“I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.”

“I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.”

“I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.”

“I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.”

“I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.”

“I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.”

“I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.”

“I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.”

“I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.”

“I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.”

“I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.”

“In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.”

“Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.”

“My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.”

“Only dumb people are happy.”

“Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.”

“The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.”

“Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.”

“You need to write on your own and produce your own life.”