This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers exploit an immensely talented artist's loyalty and trust through greed, self-dealing, concealment, knowing misrepresentation and reckless disregard for professional fiduciary duties.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

You've got a deadline. Well, I do, too: death.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?