Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.

I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.

In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.