“I went through life without looking at it. I know what my life is. My husband, that is public. The songs, those are my children.”

“To me, song writing is so therapeutic, it's just part of my life and I can't go through the day without having some kind of song idea pop into my head where I have to write Sharpie all over my arm trying to remember the song idea.”

“We went back, afterward, after the show was over that night, I took my kids backstage and said, "You know what? I know my dad's songs…"”

“If I fuckin' die without having written two, three, or four brilliant rock songs… I don't know why I lived my life.”

“All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children…. I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.”

“My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.”

“Love is meant for husbands, but my love for Hitler is stronger, I would give my life for it.”

“Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in my painting, but what I cannot do without, unwell as I am, is something greater than myself, which is my life, the power to create.”

“I don't care what people think. This is my life. I know who I am. I stood up for my rights and my life.”

“If my home country needs my life, I am ready to give my life — for my country, for my children, for the future.”