I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.

I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone.

I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself.

Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it’s terrifying to people and they think you’re a monster.

I live my life in a way that I feel completely comfortable with. I don't struggle with who I am, who I date, who I love, what I say or what I stand for, not just sexuality but everything.

Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.

There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them.

I didn't know someone could cry that much, I thought the tears would run out. They don't.

Sometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest.

Although we are Canadian, we have both vowed to remain unmarriad in solidarity with the millions who don't have the same rights as us around the world.

The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate.

The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us.

Beethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.