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Friendship is an involuntary reflex - it just happens, you can't help it.

Adam helped me find the courage to make a leap of faith, to leave behind everything I knew and start over, guided by nothing more than a passion for something...He had a kind of comical inability to understand why you wouldn't follow your dreams if you knew what they were. I mean, look -- all he wanted to do was make music, and he did that and it all worked out for him just fine.

He never judged me, never tried to fix me. His acceptance was a gift that I will spend my whole life trying to deserve.

This part of him might be only a grain of sand in an ocean of more interesting and wonderful things that made him who he was, but I still feel like it should be noted. Because, for a moment in time, he was one of us. It was not an act, and we loved him for it.

...people like Adam live 100 lives inthe span of time it takes most of us to live just one. When they go, they leave behind a lot of stories. You can't just tell the big ones. You have to tell them all, even the little stories that don't seem to mean much of anything, because details are the breadcrumb trails we follow when we're trying to find our way back to the people we've lost.

is this all what it lead up to? come out the gate rowdy and fightin’….and then gain spiritual enlightenment down the line?

that day i learned there is nothing in the world a straight up music geek could ever say to an artist that will knock that artist off their feet the same way that artist knocks us off our feet when we hear their music. as hard as we try to return the favor, we just better off with giving them dap and keeping it moving.

Men don't take the time to end things. They ignore you, until you insist on a declaration of hate.

Why do people say life it short? Life is literally the longest think you will ever do.

I and I am a saint and sinner

This is more a story about blogging than about photography. It's about a generation that's so caught up in itself that everything it says it thinks is significant, even though it's not saying anything at all.

Some people can live their whole lives in limbo. I’d rather cut the lifeline so we can move on with our lives. There came a point where I said, ‘If we’re not doing this, we need to put an end to it right now.’ And that’s what she wanted to do.

Q: Why do you kill everyone that I love?!
A: You love stupid people.

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

Actually, I don't think of myself as being inspired to create. I can't imagine doing anything else. It's like breathing.

You are not just deciding whether to stay with him: you are deciding what kind of woman you are. Are you the kind who stays with a person who physically abuses you, or are you the kind who gets treated properly because she will not allow anyone to treat her improperly?

I settled on a truth today that is always going to be true - I would do anything for my friends.

If I write stuff down in a Hello Kitty book will you like me again?

My first trip to Brazil, with no money or idea where I was staying, I had a revelation that just said "F**k it."

Hell is empty. And all the devils are here.