I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

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.

Fortunes mean nothing without knowing the lives they forever changed.

A sullied green “S” stood out on a graying backdrop that made for a road marker up there. We called it the wasteland.

What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.

God is faithful even when his children are not.

You want a happy romantic relationship? Don’t ruin it by getting married.

The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.

For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

Fail early, fail often, in order to succeed sooner.