Quotes from Taylor Momsen

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

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

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.

My goal isn't to shock.

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.

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

I love British bands.

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 love Chanel.

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

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.

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'.

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

Good and evil exists everywhere.

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.

Touring definitely makes you appreciate home more, so when I can be home, I like to stay home.

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

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

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

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

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.

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.

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.