We are forever surrounded by ash. But we are fire. And fire rises.

Better to be a catalyst for change than a martyr for lies.

The human heart isn't meant to be caged by someone who doesn't feed it.

Try and make it right, and if you can't, that's on them, not you. Forgiveness shouldn't be stockpiled by anyone. It should be given freely.

Love isn't a choice. I can't control how I feel about him any more than I can control the sun in the sky. But what I can do is control what I do with those feelings.

My mother is quite the character. You'd hate her. Sometimes I think I hate her too, but mainly I feel sorry for her. Which is kind of worse.

To rise from the ashes only to have them rain on you from above.

The more you look, the less you see.

No act of love is ever wasted.

The medals no-one will ever wear should be the ones that reflect the most. It's not an ending, it's not a period at the end of their lives, it's a semicolon. The story will continue to be told.

Remember the unremembered; love the unloved; salute the unsaluted; hear the unheard; do the things which have not been done!

When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.

The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich.

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

If you're going to make music, you need to find the context in which it might be enjoyed.

My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.