I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object and to this day it mystifies me.

Cocaine is like really evil coffee.

Only dumb people are happy.

I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

Saying of the ProphetTruthSpeaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.

Everything that happens now in the online world is part of a conversation.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

Truth revealed from heaven is worth more than all the notions of men.

Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights. So that's African Americans.

When you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death of democracy." But it makes about the same sense.

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.