In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.