Canadian singer - songwriter Avril Lavigne was born September 27, 1984 in Ontario, Canada.

• "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 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."




• "I'm proud to say that I do not do drugs. I'm against them 100 per cent - and I don't hang out with people who do drugs."




• "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."




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




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




• "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?"




• "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."




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