Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.

Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.

I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry out my disbelief with uninspired hands, my eyes shut, my emotions dulled, my spirit numb. In times like these I am in desperate need of truth to come to me like a blinding light, like a splinter in my soul, reminding me of the brevity of my time here on earth.

I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.