Avril Lavigne Quotes

Avril Lavigne delivers raw, honest rock-pop vibes that feels like a bold, heartfelt anthem.

67 quotes

1. 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.

2. If you're trying to turn me into something else, it's easy to see I'm not down with that

3. 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?

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

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

6. Hey! Hey! You! You! I Don't Like Your Girlfriend!

7. I've never done coke in my life, and I'm proud of that.

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

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

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

11. The whole world was watching me, and that's not such an easy thing to live with. It's like traveling in a Ferrari at 200mph with a great driver who takes you everywhere you want to go really fast. But that driver doesn't care if you get scared. The only thing he knows is that he has to go fast.

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

13. I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I'm also a hopeless romantic inside.

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

15. I'd like to be a little more hard-rocking on my next album. But I hate the whole label thing.

16. I'd be so proud when my video came on MTV - I'd be like that's me I'm singing on TV

17. People ask me if I regret wasting my last teen years on becoming a singer. You know something? I don't. Because singing is my life. When and if you want something so badly you'll see. I mean, I'm just so blessed to be doing what I love to do and to have been given this opportunity. I thank God because there are so many more talented people out there that will never even come close to getting a record deal.

18. 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.

19. My mom wouldn't let me sing 'Strawberry Wine' because it had 'wine' in it.

20. 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 a while. I always knew in my heart that I'd be singing.

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

22. I can write a song a day.

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

24. 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. (about lipsynching)

25. I'm so girly, it's not even funny

26. My mom would make me wear dresses to church, and I'd be like 'Ugh, no! I don't want to wear it!'

27. When I first came out on the scene, I acted liked a kid and dressed like a kid - and now I'm a woman. As you get older you start dressing differently and doing things differently with your hair. I was such a tomboy. I wore my hair the same way every day. Barely wore makeup. And now, I LOVE clothes. I love shoes, I love purses!

28. Everything I know I could never have learned on a chalkboard.

29. I'm not very scene-y. I don't really like the kind of people in L.A. anyway. Everyone is so pretentious and so caught up in what everybody thinks. I'm just a chill person.

30. Mhmm Cheeseburger.....Mhmm Deryck

31. Wait...He called me weird? He's WEIRD!

32. Yes I was alittle...drunk...when I wrote the chorus, but I really don't think you should steal somebody's boyfriend

33. I'm a shouter. If it's a guy making me mad, I'll scream in his face.

34. I've been known to run around naked when I'm trashed. So maybe indecent exposure. Actually, I'd probably be arrested for disturbing the peace. One time I was drinking whiskey, and I was so loud someone called the fire department.

35. OK. This 3-year-old kid is home alone, and a salesman comes to the door. The kid answers, and he's got a porno in one hand, a cigar in one hand and a bottle of J.D. The salesman goes, 'Hi, little boy, are your parents home?' The kid goes, 'What the fuck do you think?'

36. Fuck-all. It's just a little town where everybody knows everybody and everybody's business, and there's nothing to do except get drunk.

37. It's not cheesy, because I wrote it.

38. Dont like me for who I am? Then you dont like me for who I am. And all youre gonna get is who I am.

39. 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.

40. Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to music in church, and that was pretty much it. I didn't really grow up listening to AC/DC and all those bands.

41. 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.

42. 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.

43. 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.

44. I'm gonna live my life. I won't watch the time go by. I won't keep it inside. Freak out, let it go.

45. 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.

46. Chill out whatcha yelling' for?

47. Why should I care what other people think about me? I am who I am & who I wanna be.

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

49. Be in love once and never again.

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

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

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

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

54. Im sorry if this hurts you but I tried to keep what we had once I was wrong it wasnt keeping me awake you didnt listen you didnt listen you didnt hear me you didnt hear me…

55. Laugh out when you strike your pose. Take off all your preppy clothes.

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

57. He was a punk. And she did ballet. What more can I say?

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

59. When I can do an acoustic set, I can sit down and sing. And then when I have a huge arena full of people, there's nothing like that. It's the coolest feeling in the world, but I also like to play small intimate shows because I feel you can connect a little more. And that's something I had to learn - how to connect to a big audience versus the small one.

60. Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?

61. I have a look that girls want to copy.

62. She turns on TV and guess who she sees. Sk8er boi rocking up MTV.

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

64. 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.

65. My whole lifestyle is different. I have a really busy schedule, and I pretty much have an airplane ride every day. But I like it. It's cool. I like being busy. I think that it's good that I'm young and I'm going through this, and I'm not, like, 40. I think it's just easier now at a younger age to be going through what I'm going through because it's definitely really tiring and hard on the body.

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

67. 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.