Rilke has a very bizarre relationship to women because his mother had an older child, a girl who died when she was a baby. So when Rilke was born she named him Sophie and dressed him as a girl until he was 7. And psychologically, the repercussions of that made him the genius that he is. By the time he was 35, he was continuously falling in love with older women, mother figures, spiritual mothers.

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen.

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

Why fear death? Be scared of living.

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.