Being fierce is a compliment! It's not an insult.
Rosanna Arquette
If things aren't going so well, I try to stay positive and not give in to negative thoughts.
Music is the universal language that everyone can understand.
It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.
It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny.
Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age.
Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.
There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.
I'm a person who takes baths in the dark, alone.
I feel offended when people bring up my four marriages. I was 19 when I first got married and I thought it would be for ever. But each of my marriages has added to my life and helped form me as a human being.
I've never kept my mouth shut, especially as my industry is so misogynistic. I've got a reputation as a troublemaker.
I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.
Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way.
Most men are not that evolved.
I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.
Art is such an important part of our culture.
I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.
It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.
In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.
There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?
Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.
It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.
It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.
It's so hard to keep everything balanced in life.
I love working with children, and I love music.
I spent many years seeking self-awareness and wondering what I should be doing on this planet.
I think Americans have always been pretty outspoken. I always found that if you had emotions in England, it's like, 'Here's a cup of tea.'
Hate is a powerful energy. If you want to do anything, resist hate. Resist it.
You have to pay the bills when you're a single mum.
I never really played the game, doing what it takes to be a star, to keep your mouth shut.
It's really hard not to be paranoid when you find out that you've been spied on.
Yes, just by the nature of the colour of my skin, I was born with privilege. And it is unfair.
I know parents have a hard time letting their kids spread their wings and fly.
I think I live life really spontaneously. That drives people crazy.
I like to think of myself as fearless.
When I was doing indie films, it wasn't cool and hip.
My parents were activists and my mother was hugely involved with the anti-Vietnam War protests.
My childhood shaped the person I became. It was artistic, musical and left-wing.
So many people put older women out to pasture.
Stress is a killer.
I think everybody wants love, and everybody wants to feel alive.
I feel like I'm getting the best parts of my career, in my 50s.
I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.
