And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

Let the flesh instruct the mind.

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.

As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

Be optimistic and don’t ever get discouraged or give up no matter how vain it may seem initially

In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.

I touched curiosity, I kissed sin, I felt regret, And I was forgiven.But life won't let me forget.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Rickey doesn't have albums, Rickey has CDs.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.