It is true, I thought. I am living a life.

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

Why would Dad call you? I mean, you have to admit that he would have been better off calling the local prison and asking them to send out one of the convicted killers to come find me. - Shella

...victory does not come to men who listen to their fears.

I believe that tomorrow never exist, until we make a day called today.

At last, the wheel comes full circle

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.

I am an optimistic lady.

Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.