I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.

Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here.

Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear. I'm their biggest fan now!

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

When I was younger, I did dark movies. It was a reflection of what I saw around me.

Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

Music is my first love.

Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears.

Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore.