I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

I like down-to-earth people.

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow

Problems are part of life and within the obstacles it creates are brilliant miracles for the enduring folks.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

I'm a big fan of horror, personally.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'

Wouldn't have pegged you for a dancer," he spoke to my mind "Funny, I would have pegged you for a stalker," I shot back.

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if ... you're not ready to give everything you have, ... then you're nothin'.

Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all. ~Shuhei Hisagi

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.