I always felt more like a girl than a boy, I don't know. Music was very important to me, movies were not important. I was not dreaming of becoming a film director.

If there was a story about boys playing punk I don't think I would've made it, because it would just be the same, it wouldn't be interesting enough.

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner, " than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty.

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.

If your romance is dying, perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

I think I'm still clean living. That's - I mean I don't go home and have orgies or anything like that. I'm still the same person I've always been.

Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide

It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.

The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.