“Do not settle for living a version of your life designed by another. You are not meant to be gatekeeper or the holder of secrets and shame. You are here to live free and clear and into your own wide open truth. If you are spending too much time around people who expect otherwise you will begin to notice a feeling of constriction. Sometimes the life we create can be come a cage of our own making. Sometimes we stifle our truths to make others comfortable. Do not sacrifice your own comfort and freedom for that of another. The price you pay for this is too high. Define your own space. Remember your own divinity. You have a responsibility to this existence to live in fullness of your truth and art and purpose. Do not be diminished by circumstance or opinion or judgement. Your story is your own; nobody can write it but you. You hold the paper, you choose the pen, and you write your life story the way only you can. So, if someone tries to build you a box, rip that fucker apart and use the wood to build yourself a stage, then ditch your indoor voice and sing it loud. People are not meant to live quietly in small containers no matter how beautiful. A gilded cage is still confinement. You are a wild child – only the open air of freedom will do.”

“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.”

“She’s not stumbling, she’s not lost. She’s simply romancing her inner animal and falling in love with the wild part of her soul.”

“She chose messy, she chose wild. She chose life on her own terms.”

“Songs live longer than kingdoms. ”

“Break my heart and you will find yourself inside. ”

“She was too busy wishing on shooting stars to see the dreams come true around her.”

“Drugs to mehave always beena pretty girl with a sly smilebeckoning mewith a finger down the dark path of a fork in the road.”

“One day I’ll paint the perfect sunset– if I can only find the words.”

“When it comes to love we are primates breaking stickswhile pointing to our hearts.”

“Poetry, is a life long war wagedagainst ineffable beauty.”

“I LIVE MY LIFESO HAPPILY IN CRAZY WITH HER.”

“She was cool— the whole world seemed to spin around her in smooth jazz.”

“She sat in her perfect house, with her perfect husband, wishing that her perfect life would end.”

“THE RIGHTPOEM FINDS US EXACTLY WHEN IT NEEDS TO.—ATTICUS”