Taylor Momsen's Quotes

I'm very unorganized.

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

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

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

I've never really fit in anywhere.

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

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

My goal isn't to shock.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 don't eat any red meat.

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 leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

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

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

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

I don't work with a stylist.

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 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.