Love is not something dead, like a stone. When it melts, it encompasses everything.
The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.
I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.
I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.
I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that.
I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.
"We can't name it, but we can sing along. " That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.
The key problem is the debt restructuring in the euro zone. As long as the debt burden is not reduced, there is no chance of the weaker EU countries regaining competitiveness.
I like strongvulnerable interesting women, and then sometimes I like painting beautiful men, like Kurt Cobain, or Mr Darcy.
It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.