Avril Lavigne quotes:

I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross.

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross."

Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don't know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn't really talk onstage. I was like, 'Thank you, I love you guys,' or whatever. But now I've just kind of learned to work a crowd.

Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing 'My Happy Ending' a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and I was a little tomboy. And you would never see me wearing a dress or heels on my first record.

Don't turn around. 'Cuz you will get punched in the face. Don't make this worse. You've already gone and got me mad. It's too bad, I'm not sad It's casting over. Just one of those things you'll have to get over it.

All I want is to mess around, and I don't really care about, if you love me, if you hate me, you can't save me, baby baby, all my life I've been good

It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat.

People are like, 'Well, she doesn't know the Sex Pistols.' Why would I know that stuff? Look how young I am. That stuff's old, right?

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been thinking about or if I'm mad at a guy, it comes out.

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playing them how they were recorded.

No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

I have always looked for ways to give back because I think it's a responsibility we all share.

I think I would probably die without my eyeliner, but besides that I'm pretty basic.

I wake up in the morning, put on my face. The one that's going to get me through another day. Doesn't really matter...how I feel inside. This life is like a game sometimes. When you came around me the walls just disappeared. Nothing to surround me and keep me from my fears. I'm unprotected. See how I've opened up? You've made me trust.

There were definitely times I couldn't shower for a full week because I could barely stand, it felt like having all your life sucked out of you.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

My heart is broken... I'm lying here My thoughts are choking On you my dear...

I feel bad because I haven't been able to say anything to the fans to let them no why I've been absent. I'm torn as I'm quite private. I'm not feeling well. I'm having some health issues. So please keep me in your prayers.

When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.

You're so beautiful But that's not why I love you And I'm not sure you know That the reason I love you, is you Being you, just you Yea the reason I love you Is all that we've been through And that's why I love you

You're so beautiful but that's not why I love you, I'm not sure you know this but the reason I love you is you

You can't kick me down, I'm already on the ground. No, you can't, but you couldn't catch me anyhow.Blue skies, but the sun isn't comming out, no. Today, it is like I'm under a heavy cloud."Avril Lavigne (Runaway)

I can be very shy...but when I'm around people I know, I can be extremely loud.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation

I'm on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I'm totally spiritual ...

Don't like me for who I am? Then you don't like me for who I am. And all you're gonna get is who I am.

We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I'm with my girlfriends, I act like I'm 19.

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

It's so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago. Now, it's all about singles, it's really quick, it's online. I came out when people sold records and they still do today but - I don't know what the key is.

I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in.

I'm very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There's nothing I want to change. I'm pretty happy with what I've got.

I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.

I'm a little fighter and I stand up for what I believe in.

Actually, I know for a fact there are some young female artists who don't even sing on their own records and who don't sing live. And that is pathetic.

Like two rivers flow to the sea, someday we'll reunite for all eternity.

Every person faces their own unique challenges and you may not always know what others around you are going through.

Love is more than a word to me. It's something that I see and feel in the people around me that makes me believe it and feel loved. It's nurturing and unconditional. It is consistent and reliable.

You can't see the world through a mirror.

The only fear is fear itself, so get rid of it.

You're who you are and if people don't like who you are, all they're going to get is who you are.

I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

You were everything, everything that I wanted. We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it. And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away. All this time you were pretending. So much for my happy ending.

i dont want to be compared to britney,ashlee,hilary or lindsay. i want to be compared to me.

Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.

I appreciate it everyday. I'm like, 'I can't believe this is happening to me.' I'm so thankful. I feel really lucky and really blessed. I remind myself all the time, because it can go as quickly as it came.

I want to be played on the radio. I want to have Top 40 hits,

When I'm going through something that has a big impact on my life, it's much easier to sing.

I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay.

When things are very real and honest, they don't go away.

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

I think because I was brought up in a Christian home, I was kind of careful not to swear in my lyrics.

I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.

Love hurts whether its right ow wrong

I'm definitely really into rock music, and I feel like that is where my heart is.

Hear me when I say I believe nothings gonna change destiny. Whatevers meant to be will work out perfectly.

I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others think.

In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too, ... In Europe, for some reason, I see a lot more males in the audience. In Japan, I don't even notice any kids, partially because they're a lot more strict about fan behavior over there.

Here's to Never Growing up

And suddenly you're all i need the reason why I smile<3

I hate it when people say I'm not a true punk. I don't go around calling myself punk; I never have. That's what people need to know -- it's not me saying that, it's the media. I'm a rocker.

Everybody hurts some days. It's okay to be afraid. Everybody hurts, everybody screams. Everybody feels this way.

He stuck a camera down my throat....ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though.....he said I have "Acute Laryngitis".

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.

I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen

School teaches you what to do with the rest of your life. I already knew.

People like Shakira shouldnt have record contracts. She cant even speak English.

I'm getting more famouser by the day!

I don't fight. I don't believe in it.

Punk is like not about the style, its about the music!

It's so ridiculous, I can barely stop. I can hardly breathe, you make me wanna scream. You're so fabulous, you're so good to me baby, baby.

I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

I've never felt like this before. I'm naked around you. Does it show? You see right through me and I can't hide. I'm naked around you. And it feels so right.

I wrote about what I was going through at the time.

I only toured for three months. As soon as I got off [tour], I was just dying to start recording, because it was on my mind: 'I've got to make another record now.' And I was totally excited.

I definitely have a rock star lifestyle.

Everything is always spur-of-the-moment. All of my tattoos I decide that second and do it,

I'm tugging at my hair. I'm pulling at my clothes. I'm trying to keep my cool, I know it shows. I'm staring at my feet. My cheeks are turning red. I'm searching for the words inside my head. I'm feeling nervous trying to be perfect, 'cause I know you're worth it.

I couldn't tell you why she felt that way but she felt it everyday. I couldn't help her; I just watched her make the same mistakes again.

My dream was always to hop up on stage in front of my fans every night and perform.

You're not alone Together we stand I'll be by your side, you know I'll take your hand When it gets cold And it feels like the end There's no place to go You know I won't give in

Her feelings she hides Her dreams she can't find She's losing her mind She's falling behind She can't find her place She's losing her faith She's falling from grace She's all over the place

Why should i care? Cause you werent there when i was scared. I was so alone.

This innocence Is brilliant I hope that it will stay This moment Is perfect Please don't go away I need you now And I'll hold on to it Don't you let it pass you by

I think it's awesome,

Yeah, let's keep the peace going.

When I was 2 my mom said she knew I was going to be a singer. I`ve been performing ever since I was a young kid. So I`ve known I wanted to do this for awhile. I always knew in my heart that I`d be singing.

I don't really care if my clothes are wrinkled or there's a stain on my shirt. Going out on the road, your clothes are dirty.

I'm a person with a ton of energy who likes to scream and party and rock out. And there are other sides of me that are real serious.

He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious. He was a punk, she did ballet, what more can I say. He wanted her, she wouldn't tell, but secretly she wanted him as well

As humans we speak one language...

I'm gonna live today like this is my last day.. :)

To understand me you have to meet me

Whatever people say I am, I'm not.

Keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through. We'll make it through. Just stay strong, cause you know I'm here for you. I'm here for you. There's nothing you could say. Nothing you could do. There's no other way when it comes to the truth, but keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through.

It's hard to be stuck with people that you love, when nobody trusts

It's who I am I don't have to try hard

Face tomorrow tomorrow's not yesterday

And you fall, and you crawl, and you break, what you get, and you turn it into honesty and promise you're never going to find you're faking, no no no.

I have my own style that happens to be different from everyone else in Hollywood. My inspiration is me.

My mom wouldn`t let me sing `Strawberry Wine` because it had `wine` in it.

There's only one thing left here to say. Love's never too late...