Taylor momsen quotes

I've been writing songs since I was a wee child.

I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.

I think that me now, I wouldn't take a 16-year-old seriously in any capacity. "You're a kid, why would I listen to you? You're a child."

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

When you finish something of great importance to you and then it's over, you're left with this giant hole.

Good and evil exists everywhere.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything. I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product'.

Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

When you're touring, you're working from the moment you wake up to the moment you got to bed. Sometimes you make up fun drama, because it can get a little boring, but that's all light-hearted fun so that's different.

I'm kind of a homebody.

I don't eat any red meat.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

It's less frustrating if someone recognizes me for it [ Pretty Reckless ]; it's more frustrating that I still get asked about it.

I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.

You write a lot of bad songs before you write good ones. It takes time!

When I get off tour, I want nothing to do with anyone.

Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.

I'm a promoter of masturbation. Don't sleep around...learn yourself first! Guys do it, but girls don't. They should.

My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.

I have a place in New England. It's in the middle of nowhere, like horror movie style - Stephen King-ville. It's a good kind of retreat for me to regroup my thoughts and work. I split time: 50 percent there, 50 percent in New York

I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.

I don't work with a stylist.

Obviously everyone has things in their past that they don't enjoy looking back on [Laughs], but no, you can't change it.

I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.

I don't believe there's a hole in the ground with demons in it but I could be wrong. Hell is all around us - it's the way we treat each other and the way we treat the Earth. We already live in it.

I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.

Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.

I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

You can't change what happened.

I'm not someone who likes to go out very much.

I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road.

I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.

You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.

The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.

I'm spiritual but I don't practice any sort of thing.

When I realized I could actually make my decisions, it was a very strange feeling. It's like a switch went off in my brain, like, "Oh, then why am I doing this? I don't enjoy this, so I'm just gonna stop doing this."

I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.

Where I'm at now is awesome. A different road might have led me to a different place, and I wouldn't be happy doing anything but music.

The Beatles are, first and foremost, my favorite band of all time.

The music was always the thing that has been in our world.

I'll let the record [Who You Selling For] speak for itself. I don't want to get too in-depth with my personal opinions of it and where the songs came from because I think it messes with the listener to know the inside mindset of the writer. For example, I watched a Pink Floyd documentary the other day, and I learned that "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" was about [frontman] Syd Barrett. I didn't want to know that!

I have a knife collection. I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it. I close it and open it.

When I have time, I write other things. I'm working on a book, I paint, I sculpt, I play with my dog, I watch television - I catch up on South Park or movies or whatever I've missed, normal stuff.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

I go through ups and downs just like everyone does.

I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.

All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do.

I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships. I've got a couple close relationships with friends, a close relationship with my family, and a close relationship with my guitar. I'll know if the right person comes along, and whatever then - cool - but it's not something I'm seeking out at the moment.

Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what I actually wanted to do, which was start a band.

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.

Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.

People think pop is rock, and the lines are getting blurred. Now Rihanna's wearing f-ckin' leather jackets, and it's really annoying . . . (My style is) high-class hooker. I dress for myself. Clearly, it's provocative, but it makes me feel good. And if the only reason it makes someone uncomfortable is because I'm 17, then that person's a scumbag because it shouldn't matter.

You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.

I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.

I think the long-term goal is to continue to grow as people and as a unit, individually and together, and hopefully continue to keep making records that are better every time, because if you're not moving forward, you're either standing still or regressing.

I live very strictly by the mentality that what goes on the road, stays on the road. I keep it contained.

Touring definitely makes you appreciate home more, so when I can be home, I like to stay home.

You can't be a band and not play, and playing is so invigorating. It breathes life into you. So does creating something out of nothing.

There's a lot of things in my past that wouldn't have necessarily been my choices but at the same time, going back in time and changing something, I wouldn't want to do that because I like where I came out.

We got to open for Soundgarden, which was pretty cool.

I like to wear a lot of baggy things. Like, I buy guys' clothes, like T-shirts, and I cut them up and wear them loose, but my blazers have to be really fitted. I also like layering things and really short skirts - or showing off my legs.

I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.

I find comedy to be one of the highest of the art forms.

Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.

I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.

I paint and I sculpt and I enjoy doing things that aren't for the public. There's no pressure to it, it's just something that's a cleansing of the mind.

Leaving stage with a bloody scalp, it's rock & roll, I guess, but I want some hair at the end of the tour.

I'll start with the Beatles, and I'll bookend it with Soundgarden.

Asking about acting to me is like asking about junior high.

I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.

I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. You do get writer's block when you're writing music, and having inspiration from other great writers is great. You have to look for inspiration because sometimes music isn't the only thing that you can look at.

Every now and again I want to go to the beach and be in the sun, but that's a very rare feeling, so I could live in London, definitely.

I think I'm a homebody. I don't talk to anyone. I sit at home, and no one asks me questions or I'm talking about goat noises.

I have such trust comples. I'm close to like two people.

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.

New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

This is my life, and I want to live it and enjoy it if I can.

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'

I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.

I hold the record for signing the most boobs in my band.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

I love Alexander Wang!

I like to wear platform heels onstage and they're actually hard to find. But fans started putting money in them - so now they are filled with tons of bills. It's pretty amazing.

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

Everyone likes to stereotype things or write them off as not that serious or "this is just a phase," especially when you're that young. The music was never a phase, but the wardrobe was certainly a phase, so I think that may have overshadowed the music in the beginning, for sure. I was so outrageous.

Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.