“Words, to me, are the same as an instrument is to a musician. I never know where this typewriter is going to take me until I begin. I never know what I'm feeling until I read over what I have written.”

“Your poetry--it doesn't deserve to be locked away, hidden from the rest of the world. And neither do you.”

“This typewriter is the only one that has listened to me throughout the years, the only one who wants to know the girl beneath my layers.”

“Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.”

“If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms”

“I had fallen too far. I was in love with Rush Finlay.”

“This typewriter is the only one that has listened to me throughout the years, the only one who wants to know the girl beneath my layers.”

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?”

“ I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”

“Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.”