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I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities.

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not hide it, you see.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.