Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal

Home is the nicest word there is.

I hate my muscles. I'm not Venus Williams. I'm not Serena Williams, I don't want to look like they look.

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy.

Hear from the heart wordless mysteries.

That man is out of reach of harm in this life, who is sure of possessing heaven in the next. This is the portion of every believer.