We are what we are because of what we've been

In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.

Music is so powerful to me. I had my IPod and headphones, and my sad playlist. I kind of ventured off for just a little bit to get into the scene.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

From an author's point of view, the most painful and dangerous weapon ain't no gun or blade, but a piece of paper with the word rejected on it.

A Seer dreams of all kinds of endings, but never a happy one for herself.

They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.

Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

I do not paint nature. I am nature.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.