I don't think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.

It takes courage to stand up for yourself. I stand in honor, and no longer in fear of speaking out.

Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.

... if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

A happy family is but an ealier heaven.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.