Taylor Momsen
My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.
You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.
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.
Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.
I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
I'm very unorganized.
I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.
Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
I have such trust complexes. I'm close to, like, two people.
I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.
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 a giant Beatles fan.
I love British bands.
I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'
I love my mom and dad.
Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.
I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.
I've been told I'm out of my mind since I was 11.
I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.
Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.
I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
I've never really fit in anywhere.
I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.
If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.
I was raised Catholic.
I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
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 mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.
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.
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.
Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
I don't really like pants, man. I like tights. I'm not really a pants person. I choose not to wear pants.
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.
I love Chanel.
I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
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.
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 don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.
I love Alexander Wang!
All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do.
I don't like guys who overdress. And I don't like guys who try too hard.
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 didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.