There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal disaster area.

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.