Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.
I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.
I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.
I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was one of the authors who really blew my mind open to all sorts of weird dark and twisted places.
I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.
The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.
The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.
I guess the big thing is that I don't buy anything first-hand. It's a personal policy I have for all sorts of reasons. If you research to the textile industry yourself, you'll know why. I came to it personally.
Life is a grand party.
New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.
Sometimes it'll happen to people, that their self will stop coming through. And people will just cease to understand them.
I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.
I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation.
Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.
I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.
Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.
I don't need my sexuality celebrated, and I certainly don't need it to be criticized. I didn't necessarily want it to be observed, but here we are.
I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now.
For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.
Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.
When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.
Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not the most thrifty thrift store - but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the metropolitan area.
The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.
The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.
I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.
