My eyes are open and I’m not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside.

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.

It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life.

What are your interests?""Your son in my room, " I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon, " I said. "Astronomy.

Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.

He was beautiful in the way that a breeze is beautiful—the kind of beauty you feel gratitude for.

Flaw laden intellect shows faults in others. If you deviate even slightly in the wrong direction, you will see everyone at fault.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

In the beginning, all the world was America.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

Some people need God and some people need science.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.

Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.