I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

No one knows the dead world? Only the dead spirits?

Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness.

Don't get inspired by others, inspire yourself.

It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself

I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

I appreciate the female foot, but I've never said that I have a foot fetish. But I am a lower track guy. I like legs' I like booties'. I have a black male sexuality.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.