I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.

I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

War is sweet to those who have never fought.

So, if anyone ever tells you no, of anyone says your voice isn't important or your dreams are too big, remember these women. They persisted and so should you.

That's the problem with revealing true truths. They make people uncomfortable. The truth should be grand and exotic, but mostly it isn't. Mostly it's uncomfortable.

That's who I am, a man who has been both good and evil throughout his life. pg 14

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome stubbornness is stupid.

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

It's insanely difficult to ask an audience to go somewhere other than YouTube to watch videos.

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.