“Everywhere you look you see people with things that you do not have, and it has a profound mental effect.”

“As I grew older I learned to be ashamed of being poor, too. It became humiliating, something I'd do everything I could to hide from the rest of the world. I developed an overwhelming sense of being excluded from everything. Everywhere you look you see people with things that you do not have, and it has a profound mental effect. That's mostly during the teenage years.”

“Any friendship that is worth its weight is like a dark and secret place where you hide bits of yourself. The door can be opened only by the two people who have the key, and you carry it with you wherever you go. Magnify that by a billion, and you begin to get an idea of what marriage is like.”

“I have two definitions for the word "magick." The first is knowing that I can effect change through my own will, even behind these bars; and the other meaning is more experiential - seeing beauty for a moment in the midst of the mundane.”

“How do you make someone understand what it means or how it feels to be torn in half? Not many people know this desperate need to be put back together again.”

“You never know how much you need music until you don't have it. I missed it so much my heart hurt.”

“I learned a long time ago that you have to experience something for yourself or you never really comprehend it.”