“Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!”

“Look, you're cute, but you're not cute enough to keep me from going off on you for being an idiot. - Cold Blood”

“There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.”

“And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.”

“I never saw "being different" in and of itself as the point to "being Goth" -- dressing different from most others, maybe, but the point to me was to get together with people who liked the same music and clothes, or at least very similar music and clothes, and go to clubs, go to movies, go to coffee-houses and hold poetry readings and, in general, just have some good harmless fun. Did I look like a dork? Sure, but so did everybody else in the club. We weren't "being different", at least not all of us, we just were different and the point was to stop bitching about being different and just have fun.”

“Just keep being true to yourself, if you're passionate about something go for it. Don't sacrifice anything, just have fun.”