I was the girl of the chain letter, the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

O starry night, This is how I want to die

O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.

See with the eyes of love and a thing becomes beautiful. See with the eyes of hate and things are ugly.

Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.

If they ever turn, let them chase me for a while. It’s always been afantasy of mine to be chased by zombie cheerleaders.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

'The Third Man, ' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made.

Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

Cynicism is a form of obedience.

If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you already have the Holy Spirit living within you.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.