A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

When you get scared, embarrassed, angry, nervous, with full of emotion and bad thoughts, remember to maintain your discipline. It earns you respect the more.

You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it.

I sort of don't believe in trends. I know that they exist, but what is important at the end of the day is to remain independent

The way that being on the job works on your adrenaline highs and the crashes that come after the adrenaline highs. It really takes over your life.

Part of why I was drawn to making dance music was convenience. It was the type of music I could make without a band, and I wasn't interested in collaborating with anyone.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.

I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.