“She tells me to "live free and be free, but listen to other people's advice." I listen, but I don't always follow it.”

Attributed to a Teen Vogue interview
" Frances Bean Cobain: 'I'm a Different Person' http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1101912,00.html" (2005)

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