Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
You can find your identity in the damage that's been done to you. You find your identity in your wounds, in your scars, in the places where you've been beat up and you turn them into a medal. We all wear the things we've survived with some honor, but the real honor is in also transcending them.
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
The truth is everybody changes every day, and some things are more devastating than others, but we never are the same. And there are two ways to deal with these changes, you either accept them, or you fight them like hell all the way.
Always move towards pain when making art.
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
The individual is the human who is all mankind. The whole history of man is written in ourselves