Why can't we breathe now, In this moment we have breath?

My heart's been broken in a thousand pieces I've lived and died a thousand times And in each of those lifetimes With all of those pieces I chose you…A million times.

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one, and starts a war in the soul of another.

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.

I didn't want to sing. I wanted to be music.

I didn't want to sing.I wanted to be music.

The most beautiful things often stand alone.

I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me.

We write to go on living, after we have died.

If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read "I love you".

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.

The shame of living extends its tentacles around my dreams.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.

You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in.