"You don’t always get what you wish for, you get what you work for."
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self."
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
"If you’re a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don’t buy this CD. I don’t care if you like me, I fucking hate you"
"I think a lot of the time the reason that people pirate, is they want access to good music. And they don’t get it because the radio is so shit."
"You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing."
"Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?"
"I do have friends, but they don’t know me, only someone I’ve created to take my place. Someone sculpted from ice. I keep the melted me bottled up inside. Where no one can touch her, until, unbidden, she comes pouring out."
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though."
"No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice."
"Everything you ever love will reject you or die."