Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

- Alexis De Veaux

Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our lives …

- Alexis De Veaux

The house has to be clean and in order because I have to be able to sift through the creative disorder in my mind. The mental disorder that I'm explo…

- Alexis De Veaux

I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

- Alexis De Veaux

To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.

- Alexis De Veaux

A girl is a soul at sunrise.

- Alexis De Veaux

I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty lan…

- Alexis De Veaux

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

- Alexis De Veaux

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

- Alexis De Veaux