Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.

Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

I have a hard time trusting a person without a couple of murders on his record, Mr. Draedax.

o•cean (ˈōSHən) n. pl. -s. 1. The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. [2015, Whittier]

If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.

Only exercise on the days you want to improve your mood.

It's very difficult to introduce the world to our culture.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.