I wanna outrace the speed of pain.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

The more you resist change, the more it will be painful for you to accept it.

Revenge is a lie we fabricate to ease our consciences. But like two negatives can never equal a positive, two wrong deeds cannot make a right. They only screw-up the equation.

When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.

The man who prays grows and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Usually horror in your personal life can translate into some good music. Sometimes. Sometimes it can be really maudlin and boring, and kind of personal.

To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.

I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.