“Remember that it doesn't matter where someone comes from, but where that person is going.”

“It doesn't matter where you've been, only where you are going.”

“What is freedom?" he asked bitterly, "and who is truly free? We are all bound by what we are, and where we come from.""Maybe," I said slowly as I considered the turn my life had taken, the lies I had been told, "because we do not look farther than where we have been told to look. Perhaps it would all be different if we weren't afraid of what we are. Or what we might become.”

“Just because you love someone, doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.”

“It's ok, it's alright, nothing's wrongtell Mr. man with impossible plans to just leave me alonein the place where I make no mistakesin the place where I have what it takes”

“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”

“Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.”