Blue Moon

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.

A hunter in love with his prey.

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

I am a rare species, not a stereotype.

When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didn’t want to appear muscley, when at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings, I decided that I was a feminist.

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

What good is safety if you're dead inside.

It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?