Quotes

My dad raised me with some good advice: "Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from."

I'm about to make people forget about Madonna.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.

I appreciate being a girl more now than ever. There's a struggle involved in it, but it's so rewarding when you prove to all men that you might have something up on 'em.

I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go--casting, the artwork, everything--I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.

I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.

I would win on Survivor (2000) as long as I didn't have to eat bugs.

It takes a lot of people years to turn a negative into a positive. It takes me, like, an album.

There's not a lot of people out there that are as honest as I am.

Just read that I'm bisexual. So 1991. Good thing people write articles about me so I can get my facts straight. Can't wait for the day when people stop talking about sexual preference or that a woman is a CEO and actually start making the world liveable.

[Graham Norton shows Pink a picture of her playing Rumpleteaser from Cats] Ha! Give that here or I'll kick your ass!

I think I did a good job of raising my parents.

I don't want love to destroy me like it did my family.

What about us? What about all the times you said you knew the answer? What about us? What about all the broken happy ever afters?

I guess I just lost my husband / I don't know where he went / So I'm gonna drink my money / I'm not gonna pay his rent (nope) / I got a brand new attitude and / I'm gonna wear it tonight / I wanna get in trouble / I wanna start a fight

Never win first place, I don't support the team / I can't take direction, and my socks are never clean / Teachers dated me / My parents hated me / I was always in a fight / 'Cause I can't do nothin' right / Everyday I fight a war against the mirror / I can't take the person starin' back at me / I'm a hazard to myself / Don't let me get me / I'm my own worst enemy / It's bad when you annoy yourself / So irritating / Don't wanna be my friend no more / I wanna be somebody else

I don't believe Adam and Eve / Spent every goddamn day together / If you give me some room there will be room enough for two / Tonight / Leave me alone I'm lonely / Alone I'm lonely / I'm tired / Leave me alone I'm lonely / Alone I'm lonely tonight / I don't wanna wake up with another / But I don't wanna always wake up with you either / No you can't hop into my shower / All I ask for is one ***kin' hour / You taste so sweet / But I can't eat the same thing every day / Cuttin' off the phone / Leave me the ***k alone / Tomorrow I'll be beggin' you to come home

When the spark has gone and the candles are out / And the song is done and there's no more sound / Whispers turn to yelling and I'm thinking / How do we get so mean? How do we just move on? / How do you feel in the morning / When it comes and everything's undone? / Is it 'cause we wanna be free? Well that's not me / Normally I'm so strong / I just can't wake up on the floor / Like a thousand times before / Knowing that forever won't be

In our family portrait we look pretty happy / Let's play pretend, let's act like it comes naturally / I don't wanna have to split the holidays / I don't want two addresses / I don't want a step-brother anyways / And I don't want my mom to have to change her last name / In our family portrait we look pretty happy / We look pretty normal, let's go back to that / In our family portrait we look pretty happy / Let's play pretend, act like it goes naturally

I don't wanna be the girl who laughs the loudest / Or the girl who never wants to be alone / I don't wanna be that call at 4 o'clock in the morning / 'Cause I'm the only one you know in the world that won't be home / Ah the sun is blinding / I stayed up again / Oh, I am finding / That's not the way I want my story to end / I'm safe up high / Nothing can touch me / But why do I feel this party's over? / No pain inside You're my protection / But how do I feel this good sober? / I don't wanna be the girl who has to fill the silence / The quiet scares me 'cause it screams the truth / Please don't tell me that we had that conversation (I know we hadn't) / I won't remember, save your breath, 'cause what's the use? / Ah, the night is calling / And it whispers to me softly come and play / Ah, I am falling / And if I let myself go I'm the only one to blame

When someone said count your blessings now / 'fore they're long gone / I guess I just didn't know how / I was all wrong / They knew better / Still you said forever / And ever / Who knew / Yeah yeah / I'll keep you locked in my head / Until we meet again / Until we / Until we meet again / And I won't forget you my friend / What happened / If someone said three years from now / You'd be long gone / I'd stand up and punch them out/ 'cause they're all wrong and / That last kiss / I'll cherish / Until we meet again / And time makes / It harder / I wish I could remember / But I keep / Your memory / You visit me in my sleep / My darling / Who knew

I'm lyin' here on the floor where you left me / I think I took too much / I'm crying here, what have you done? / I thought it would be fun / I can't stay on your life support / There's a shortage in the switch / I can't stay on your morphine / 'Cause it's making me itch / I said I tried to call the nurse again / But she's being a little bitch / I think I'll get outta here, where I can / Run just as fast as I can / To the middle of nowhere / To the middle of my frustrated fears / And I swear you're just like a pill / Instead of makin' me better / You keep makin' me ill

I don't know if I can yell any louder / How many times have I kicked you out of here / Or said something insulting? / I can be so mean when I wanna be / I am capable of really anything / I can cut you into pieces / When my heart is broken

I think I've finally had enough, I think I maybe think too much / I think this might be it for us (blow me one last kiss) / You think I'm just too serious, I think you're full of shit / My head is spinning so (blow me one last kiss)

Disease's growing, it's epidemic / I'm scared that there ain't a cure / The world believes it and I'm going crazy / I cannot take any more / I'm so glad that I'll never fit in / That will never be me / Outcasts and girls with ambition / That's what I wanna see / Disasters all around / World despaired / Your only concern / Will it fuck up my hair

My mom caught me with a pack of cigarettes when I was in the seventh grade. She made me smoke the whole packet in front of her, thinking that would make me so sick I'd quit. I did feel sick but her plan didn't work.

Willow is very literal, she's got a scientific brain, she's really funny, really sassy, little too smart, she's gonna set the world on fire. Jameson loves attention, he's not shy at all, he's the most social baby I've ever met in my life. I'm trying to say 'Stranger danger!' and he's like 'What? Strangers are only strangers until they're your friends'.

[about 'There You Go'] My first video, I think this is the prettiest I've ever looked and will ever look. I was 19 when I shot this video, I'd just started riding motorcycles, I almost crashed 85 times.

I wish somebody would've told me when I was 13 that all these sucky people weren't going to be around me forever, and that my green hair and my braces and my freckles all over my face and my attitude, it was going to work for me one day. And my God, has it ever. And now I have really nice teeth, except for that one right there, because I didn't wear my retainer. So wear your retainer, fly your flag, and screw everybody.

[about 'Stupid Girls'] I really enjoy making fun of other people, but I also enjoy making fun of myself, and this was a lot of that. It was so much fun, falling off the car.

[Variety, 2019] I am an R&B singer. I am also a gospel singer. I'm a punk-rock singer. A pop singer. A soul singer. All of that is me. I was a little girl that loved Debbie Gibson. Mary J. Blige was the first cassette I bought. I liked 2 Live Crew. I liked Green Day. I loved Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera. I liked everything and I think my music reflects that... if you want to blur lines, make people uncomfortable and question what they believe in just by looking at you, then you've got to take risks - you've got to be bold and go all out.

I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

You can't move mountains by whispering at them.

[kissing Kristanna Loken in 2003] Kristanna has the better tongue action. Girls always do. They have softer lips. It's not the first time I've kissed a girl. But I would say it's one of the nicest kisses I've had from a man or a woman.

I hope I never grow up, I think I've actually regressed.

[on the death of her friend, Lisa Marie Presley]: Oh, this one hurts my heart. Lisa Marie, you were one of a kind. Funny as shit, smart as a whip, sensitive, talented, witty, mean, loving, generous, judgmental but always right, loyal, and you adored your children. My heart breaks for you and your beautiful family and your children. The world lost a rare gem today. May your soul rest in peace, friend.

[about her first therapy session] Oh I remember it like it was yesterday. My mom threw me on a therapist's couch when I was 14 years old, and by the 4th session the therapist said, when my mom came to pick me up she said 'I think the wrong person is on the couch', and I remember my mom reversing so fast out of this woman's driveway that we ran over a couple of shrubs.

[on not letting Willow have a cell phone] She has a little watch she can text me if she needs to get picked up a little later or sooner, and she has all the emergency stuff, but I told her point blank, 'If you can produce literature for me, from a reliable source, that tells me that social media is good for you, then you can be on it, and otherwise, good luck'. She may actually find that literature, but good luck!

[on Conversations with my 13 Year Old Self] It's crazy, there's been so many dads especially that have come up to me over the years and said 'Thank you for writing that song in particular because I felt like I had no bridge back to my daughter, and that song was the bridge'.

I say that my dad taught me the language of the trees, because my dad always brought me into nature, and always spoke to me as if I was smarter than him. He never treated me like a baby, he never treated me like I wasn't smart enough to get an idea, and he loved me no matter what. He would show up when no one else could find me, he always knew where to find me and he would bring me home, no questions asked, no less love.

[on her mom's reaction to Missundaztood] I don't begrudge her a single day for any of it because most of it was her trying to figure out how to control a kid like me.

In general I'm pretty hard to work with, I worked at Wendy's for about an hour and a half, and I lasted at pizza hut for about a year, McDonald's for maybe six months, yeah, I'm not good at taking orders at all.

I'm actually terrified of heights, that's why I got into aerials in the first place, just because I didn't want to be a person that was terrified of heights, and then I got on a construction crane and got pulled over the back of the stage, I was like 'What're we doing? What're we actually doing? Does this even make sense to be doing? Is this safe?'

[on her exercise regime when she's not touring] I never stop completely, I go on mini strikes. You can't keep up all that all the time. I like to feel strong, but it's no longer about a look, it's a feeling.

When I was little I was like 'I'm gonna grow up, I'm gonna change the world, I'm gonna be a rock star, you know, I'm gonna get legally emancipated when I'm 16 and hitchhike across country and get discovered singing on the boardwalk at Venice beach. And now I'm here and it's like my goals have completely changed, I still want to change the world, still working on that, but now it's more like 'I want to fall in love, and have pets, and a nice house'. I still want to do what I do.

I'm easy to get along with if you're not faking what you are around me, 'cause I will find that out and I will call you on it, and you will not like me for that. So if you are you no matter what you are, and you're comfortable, and you're just there to have fun, and you just enjoy life, then I'm totally easy to get along with.

[on Don't Let me Get Me] I'm not dissing Britney Spears in this song, I'm actually giving her a compliment, and a lot of the people who listen to this song think I am dissing her because they're really not paying attention, I don't want to get my point misconstrued, it's more about the record company than it is about Britney Spears.

[on 'Don't Let Me Get Me'] It's somewhat autobiographical for the most part, definitely. In class I was definitely always getting in trouble. I had 63 hours of overdue detentions when I left school, that I'll never have to serve!