It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand

The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Again a different meaning has to be understood.

Again a different meaning has to be understood.

I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as read more

I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.'

Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and read more

Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance