Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

Why can't we all just get along?

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

Trust is like sand, one lie and it slips away.

Your imagination will lead you to where you ought to be.

Life gets easier when you stop caring and expecting things to get better!

A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.

I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it

A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

The Black Parade has to go home soon, so you're gonna be stuck with My Chemical Romance. I'm sorry. That singer has a despicable mouth, he dresses funny, and he can't sing!

Seven half-bloods shall answer the call To storm or fire the world must fall An oath to keep with a final breath and foes bear arms to the doors of death