Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

God dwells within you, as you.

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Don't worry about yesterday it ended last night at midnight.

In some seasons, Jesus asks us, “Will you still love Me when things are not happening the way that you thought they would happen?

I want to go to college, and I want to keep acting and singing.

Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.

Race is not, and will not be an issue in this case.

As long as space abides and as long as the world abides, so long may I abide, destroying the sufferings of the world.

Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is better to be slandered without being bad.