Follow your heart and chase your dreams until you catch them. Negative people who say you cant do something are only speaking for themselves

When there's nothing left, there's always music, that's all I've ever known.

I like metal because it's complicated, technical, brutal and I like the challenge.

If you can build it, you can unbuild it

People may not see you the way you see yourself. But, that's because they don't want to acknowledge your uniqueness. Jealousy is not disguised.

The bulk of suffering does not stem from 'dreadful' experiences but rather from frightening beliefs.

On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet down the line.

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?

At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.