Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it’s terrifying to people and they think you’re a monster.

I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone.

I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself.

I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.

I live my life in a way that I feel completely comfortable with. I don't struggle with who I am, who I date, who I love, what I say or what I stand for, not just sexuality but everything.

Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.

There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them.

I didn't know someone could cry that much, I thought the tears would run out. They don't.

Sometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest.

Although we are Canadian, we have both vowed to remain unmarriad in solidarity with the millions who don't have the same rights as us around the world.

The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate.

You cannot receive until you learn to release.

Every major religion documents the fact that we ourselves have to take action to achieve whatever we desire. So why leave it on luck when your thoughts, beliefs and actions create your destiny?

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

Have dreams/goals and never quit working toward achieving them.

Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common.

How do you get 'feng shui' out of 'thoughtful'?

The film industry needs to find a way to bring audiences to movie theaters. It's more of a technical trick than a revolution.

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.