Taylor Momsen Quotations

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

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

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't really like pants, man. I like tights. I'm not really a pants person. I choose not to wear pants.

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

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

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

My whole thing is feel free to hate me - I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.

My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.

My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

I sleep for about four hours a night, or day really. I go to bed at, like, 9 A.M., sleep for four hours, then get up and start the day again. I don't mind if that's not healthy.

I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.

I've been told I'm out of my mind since I was 11.

The Beatles did everything first, and they did it the best.

Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.

I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.

I'm a big fan of Die Antwoord, which is a different style than I normally listen to.

I'm completely neurotic, totally anxious and high-strung all the time.

If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

I don't like guys who overdress. And I don't like guys who try too hard.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

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

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

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."

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

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

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."

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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

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.

I have a knife collection.

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

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

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

I go through ups and downs just like everyone does.

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

I love Alexander Wang!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I don't eat any red meat.

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

I don't work with a stylist.

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.

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

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

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

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.