"I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals."

“Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 27, 2012

“Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?”

“Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

Source : "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.

“God shows us he loves us by giving us access to himself.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com

“There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.”

“I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.”

Source : "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty review - superficially magnificent" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2015.

“Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world.”

Source : "Poet Emily Dickinson Was A Much Loved Baker". "All Things Considered" with David Greene, kclu.org. December 27, 2016.

“... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.”