For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.
The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.
It’s exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write – whether it be by loving or hating it.
To whom do I owe the first apology? No one’s been crueler than I’ve been to me.
Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?
I’m sad, but I’m laughing.
If I have taken part in anything perceived as the fame machine, it’s been my choice. My motivations certainly have been different from some people’s that I’ve worked with. But it’s okay to work equally passionately for two different reasons.
Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly, one small sideways look and I feel so ungood. Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make me feel the way I thought only my father could.
Every time I scratch my nails down someone else’s back, I hope you feel it.
In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren’t deities.
Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.
To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.
How long before my dignity is reclaimed?
I would never judge someone’s intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.
And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they’re here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.
I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.
I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.
I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can’t provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.