Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.

I love 'Fire On The Floor.' It's just smouldering. I think it's gonna be a fantastic piece to perform live. It's filled with passion. It's about when someone you know is so bad for you, but you can't...

When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.

My songs are my girlfriends. I have a secret romance with all of them. I romance with them year after year.

I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such...

I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little...

Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.

Why are babies allowed to cry when they wake up, but adults crying when they wake is frowned upon? Babies are permitted to act like assholes whenever they feel like it and no one blinks...

I'm not going to answer that because it's ridiculous. I love you, Lainey. I've loved you from the day I met you, if not before, and I've loved you every day since. How could you even doubt that?

Tears don't make you a girl, but they sure make you human.

I was terrified of what might have happened to you, I choked

I wish Darcangelo were here. He'd fucking hate this.

I'm not going near anything that's going in the crack of his ass!

The surplus of the heart overflows from a smile.

I wanted to say a lot but wasn't sure where to start

"Up and down' is Irish for anything at all - - from crying into the dishes to full - blown psychosis. Though, now that I think about, a psychotic is more usually 'not quite herself'."

His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.

And you… do you know what you are? Stupid? Beautiful, he says, his face turning red.

The trauma said, 'Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.'

For she was the only one, of all of them, to have spared me a pleasant word; and suddenly I longed for time to pass, not for its own sake, but as it would take me back to her.

whispers are often thunderous

As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance, you never feel so bad that you can't describe how bad you feel, but joy on...

His impulsive bust had been as beautiful as a first kiss to a child. And, she felt, as important.

I have no way to describe this, and I am positive that this is all just a horrible dream I have yet to wake up from. The vice principle is insane. My own uncle is insane. Those stupid kids are insane....

My heart beats so hard, I feel like I have an earthquake inside of me. It's weighing me down and my hands shake with the need of safety and comfort.