When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn’t otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.
Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn’t want to look at that.
Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you’re willing at any moment during a fight to say, ‘This means nothing. I love you, let’s forget about it.
I didn’t care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn’t fun to watch.
The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn’t was beginning to wear on me.
My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.
I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.
She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I’d be married with five kids now.
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic.
A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.
When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.
Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.
One of the better definitions of insanity – doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.
When you realize that there’s a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you’ve identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.
I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you’d meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.
Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.
Sometimes life’s so much cooler when you just don’t know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
What I’ve realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
As a father now, I wouldn’t do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn’t do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I’m his dad, I’m also his friend.