Quotes from Richey Edwards

When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.

I've never hit anybody in my life. I never would, and the only way I could make a point was by hurting myself...It's something I've done since I was a teenager.

Everything in life has let me down.

Love is an impossible concept.

All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.

All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

It's about people who take their frustration out on everyone around them. I never raise my voice. Cutting myself or hurting myself is the way I deal with anger.

Its important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral.

The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.