Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.

Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.

I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.

I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.

If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.

Angela turned in her chair. Resting her chin on folded hands, the mirror reflected the look of a girl in love. ‘Oh, what a blessing fate has bestowed on me.

The word 'love, ' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

Donald Trump just has always elevated women to the highest echelons.

While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.