“I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.”

“It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.”

“Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?”

“Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.”

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”