“Missing you just runs too deep. Oh I can’t breathe, thinking of your smile.”

Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.

No escaping when I start, once I’m in I own your heart

I wanted to look different because I felt different

The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with,

If My New Album Isn’t Out in 2014, Something is Seriously Wrong!

And they don’t deserve that. What you’re doing by being yourself is you’re keeping it real, and you’re being really brave.

I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.

A lot of my male vocal influences are British – people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I’m selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff… Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.

There’s a certain amount of mind control that happens. Everybody is living in a world where they’re being controlled.

No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn’t mean sh** if it’s not connected with love.

It’s still stuff that fans know and love but it’s a new chapter 100 percent.

I’m very inspired by past music.

Bowie’s been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the ‘Diamond Dogs’ album, and the cover alone just grabbed my attention. I think I was probably around 12.

There’s always gonna be people that are scared of it. But at the end of the day you give those bullies, those people, that are so ignorant, if you give them the power to affect you, you’re letting them win

We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.

Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.

In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.

the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.

For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.