"I always liked the black clothes and the idea of makeup and black hair and this kind of gloom and doom vampire kind of thing. It always looked cool and felt cool, but the fact is, most of the people that I knew were just so sad. They were hurting so deeply, and it was so tragic. They were people with no hope and no ambition, in many cases, they were just kind of, like, not even alive — like, dead and empty, bodies with empty shells."