Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?""That depends.""On what?""On how I want to feel.

I've got a great support group, real and true friends and I'm moving forward with my life. I was sad and wanted to make things work but I'm completely fine now. I'm moving on.

A secret is a secret in my mind.

I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.

A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.

I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.