“Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?”

“Tears are words the heart can't express”

“Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk?”

“You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love.”

“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.”

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

“Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. Yo...”

“Singing songs that make you slit your wrists”

“It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”