Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

If the lords of the underworld can't bring me out of this funk, no one can.

If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty.

Often we are the prisoner of praise and appreciation.

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

If it makes you feel better, I’m not happy with the way all this went down any more than you are. But sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. (Acheron)

I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.

People are more willing to accept a singer as an actor, than an actor as a singer.