"What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying."

“You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy”

“I wanted to be an artist, even at the age of 15, and people used to laugh at me. It was the late '90s, the time of pop stars and navel-dancing, where you were showing your midriff. I wanted to be a real singer.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.”

Source : Anne Boleyn, “O Death Rock Me Asleep”

“You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”

“You never forget your first love.”

“I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.”

Source : "Scott Speedman for “xXx: State of the Union”". Interview with Garth Franklin, www.darkhorizons.com. April 26, 2005.

“I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian 'correctively' raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.”

“Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.”