My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.

The life I live is my art work.

I like to work really hard and then earn the good life. I actually enjoy it. If you're eating caviar all the time, it doesn't taste good anymore.

Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.

Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.

I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.

The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.