I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.

I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.

My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department.

If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.

Whatever God permits to happen in your life is a gift to you. God has two goals...His Glory and Your Good!

Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.

The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

"Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.