Emilie Autumn Quotes & Sayings

If you want to be safe, walk in the middle of the street. — Emilie Autumn

I'm a big stupid history nerd. — Emilie Autumn

Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em. — Emilie Autumn

I feel as though, if I were to extend my hand just a little toward the pool where the ideas ferment, I could grab at the idea and pull it out of the pool and onto the floor where ideas must stand before the jury of the brain. There, it must present itself, still from the pool, and a bit shivery because new ideas are not given a towel to dry off with, towels being reserved for proven theories; new ideas are simply pulled and stood up, and asked to explain themselves - not a very pleasant thing really, which is why so many people go into the room where the pool is. The exercise is exhausting not to mention a bit difficult to watch, if you are at all a sympathetic creature. What was my idea, anyways? — Emilie Autumn

I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me — Emilie Autumn

DeathWish: You spent some time working with Courtney Love and Billy Corgan on a creative level, how did this experience help your growth as an artist?
EA: It didn't
it stunted it entirely. I gave up over a year of my life and career helping Billy with his flop of an album and designing and building all of the costumes for his music video. With Courtney, we were friends, but I spent years working to record and promote her flop of an album only to find that my value increased every time I peed in an orange juice bottle so that she could fake her way through a drug test. Not exactly a haven for artistic growth. — Emilie Autumn

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill. — Emilie Autumn

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me. — Emilie Autumn

Studies show: Intelligent girls are more depressed Because they know What the world is really like Don't think for a beat it makes it better When you sit her down and tell her Everything gonna be all right She knows in society she either is A devil or an angel with no in between She speaks in the third person So she can forget that she's me — Emilie Autumn

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind? — Emilie Autumn

We are machines, all of us ...
And what does a machine do when too much is assigned to it? When too much coal, too much ink, too much information is forced violently through its channels?
Why, it stutters, it chokes, finally, it shuts down.
Where do they put the broken machines?
There is only one place. — Emilie Autumn

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general. — Emilie Autumn

What if I'm an angel without wings to take me home? — Emilie Autumn

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide. — Emilie Autumn

And if I end up with blood on my hands, well I know, that you'll understand, 'cause I fight like a girl. — Emilie Autumn

Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors ...
Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat ...
What then was music created for?
Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?
I think I know. — Emilie Autumn

Is it my relative sanity that makes my life here so painful, so desperate, so hopeless? Loosen my grip on that, and perhaps life both in the asylum and out becomes much easier ... — Emilie Autumn

I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people. — Emilie Autumn

Hey, look at me! Look at me! Look at me! And ... look at me. Will he think I'm sexy enough? Will he find me wholesome enough? Am I fuckable? Is he allergic to feathers?! — Emilie Autumn

I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way. — Emilie Autumn

And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well as in ever existing form of media, harrassed, molested, raped, and, if all that wasn't enough, is forever poked and prodded and weighed and constantly wrong for eating too much, eating too little, a million details which all point to the solitary girl, to EVERY solitary girl, and say: Destroy yourself. — Emilie Autumn

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I. — Emilie Autumn

EA: Is it the smoke that smells like vanilla?
Audience: Yeah.
EA: Yeah, they do that to mask the chemicals that are actually killing you. — Emilie Autumn

Across the sky
I will come for you
If you ask me to
Demystify
Your uncommon dreams
Stranger things have come true
Fear no more the midnight
Fear no more the sea
Close your eyes, regret nothing
You're safe with me
Look into the shadows
Step into the mist
Search your land but doubt never
I still exist
Ask yourself: is this all there is
Take no answer but the one you find
I have put my faith in aberrations of your kind
But even if you're in my mind.
Should we hear the silence
Should we hear the noise
I don't need this blind acceptance
I have made my choice
Light lives in the darkness
Beauty lives in pain
In destruction we may lose ourselves
But still I will remain
Across the sky
Across the sky
See beyond the moment
Think beyond the day
Hear the word
Hear the word — Emilie Autumn

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time. — Emilie Autumn

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago. — Emilie Autumn

He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior. — Emilie Autumn

Once upon a time is now. — Emilie Autumn

We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one. — Emilie Autumn

I've been using Steinberg's Cubase exclusively to record and mix my music since the very beginning of my career. It's no exaggeration to say that Cubase has been my partner in bringing my music and message to the world, and, now, they are helping to bring my story to the world as well, as I record the audiobook of my novel. — Emilie Autumn

Well, I've been a musician my whole life. When I was two, I would sing the theme from Star Wars in my crib; my mom taped it for proof. Then, when I was five, I asked for a violin. No one knew why I would want one, but my wish was granted and I ended up a classically trained fiddler by age 12. The only problem with that was, when you're a classical violinist, everybody expects you to be satisfied with playing Tchaikovsky for the rest of your life, and saying you want to play jazz, rock, write songs, sing your songs, hook up your fiddle to a guitar amp, sleep with your 4-track recorder, mess around with synths, dress like Tinkerbell in combat boots, AND play Tchaikovsky is equivalent to spitting on the Pope. — Emilie Autumn

You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain. — Emilie Autumn

There is no suggestion box in the Psych Ward. — Emilie Autumn

If you're going to die, then die. If you are going to live, then fight. — Emilie Autumn

If that happens again someone's gonna get shot ... with an arrow of love! — Emilie Autumn

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening. — Emilie Autumn

I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane. — Emilie Autumn

Then I break a glass and I slit my very innermost thigh so that I can pretend that I'm menstru
well, unavailable. — Emilie Autumn

And falling's just another way to fly. — Emilie Autumn

If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud! — Emilie Autumn

What's the big fucking deal? Lots of amazing people have committed suicide, and they turned out alright. — Emilie Autumn

I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry.
I cried because you wouldn't let me speak.
I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine.
I shone because I thought you loved me ... — Emilie Autumn

We will paste upon the curled pages words
Like charming and romantic and sentimental
Forgetting that charming is witchcraft
Romantic is love
And sentiment is what makes us human — Emilie Autumn

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops. — Emilie Autumn

Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead? — Emilie Autumn

Your stockings prove your virtues.
Be certain they are clean and free of tears. — Emilie Autumn

Life is not like Gloomy Sunday, with a second ending when the people are disturbed. — Emilie Autumn

If you're going to die, then die. If you're going to live, then fight. — Emilie Autumn

There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge. — Emilie Autumn

I'm not stupid. I know exactly what's going on, and I'm not fighting it. If I have to go through this, I will glean from it any small benefit I can receive. I will not fight this. Bring it on. Bring on the cure. Bring on the fucking happy. I'm committed. — Emilie Autumn

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it. — Emilie Autumn

It is this, not the spirits, that frightens us; shall we never be free, even after we die? — Emilie Autumn

Thank you.
It used to be knee length, but then I discovered that when I get angry I like to cut things.
I'm not allowed to have scissors any more.
It's still pretty lengthy, but I've been threatening to shave half of it for the past week and nobody seems to believe me ...
I do it all myself though because I scream when I'm touched and that scares people. — Emilie Autumn

For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night — Emilie Autumn

Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck the hole. Oh so smooth, and none sophistacted. Because, you know, how sophisticated can hole-fucking really be — Emilie Autumn

I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much. — Emilie Autumn

Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love... — Emilie Autumn

Simply put, if you are a Wayward Victorian Girl, I'll find you. — Emilie Autumn

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever. — Emilie Autumn

I do not have OCD OCD OCD. — Emilie Autumn

My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life — Emilie Autumn

You young romantics find your "soul" in the strangest places. — Emilie Autumn

I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead. — Emilie Autumn

I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow. — Emilie Autumn

I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening to a book being read by someone else as actually having read that book. It simply is not reading. — Emilie Autumn

You know the games I play
And the words I say
When I want my own way
You know the lies I tell
When you've gone through hell
And I say I can't stay
You know how hard it can be
To keep believing in me
When everything and everyone
Becomes my enemy and when
There's nothing more you can do
I'm gonna blame it on you
It's not the way I want to be
I only hope that in the end you will see
It's the Opheliac in me — Emilie Autumn

Studies show that intelligent girls are more depressed because they know the world. — Emilie Autumn

I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia. — Emilie Autumn