You were meant for me, Poppy. I can feel it in my fingertips when I touch you.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

the star that I was wishingthe light that I was kissingsitting back and reminiscing that night, it was missing.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

We always become like the one we worship!

When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed to making things up—that did not quite happen.

I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.

Maybe you just get so attached to the music of your youth that you think it's better than what's coming out now.

I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.

When I first met with Kurt [Sutter], it was one of those moments where you feel everything is happening for a reason.