When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

When demons call you the Mother of Destruction, sh*t gets real." Muse.

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

Those blue eyes that had stopped my heart the first time she looked at me found me in the crowd." -Cage

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

Building is a sweet impoverishing.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.

Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.