A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

If he could just have one more chance, he'd act like the man he'd always believed himself to be.

My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

The love that saves us is not a love that might come to us in the future, but rather the love we can give to whomever is around us right now.

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

I cut my own hair most of the time. You just do it all by feel.

There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.