I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road.

Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.

I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.

I don't believe there's a hole in the ground with demons in it but I could be wrong. Hell is all around us - it's the way we treat each other and the way we treat the Earth. We already live in it.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'

turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident!

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.

If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour.

If at all possible, commune with nature daily.

I always expect unexpected challenges.