"At 10:28 am on August 17th my gorgeous, hilarious, outspoken, warrior queen Mother - Gina Michelle DeBose - passed away due to complications with stage 3 ovarian cancer. I couldn't be more proud of her and how she fought this insidious disease over the past 3 years."
It has been a blast being here tonight; but listen, we all know there should be someone else right here in this chair next to me right there as he was for my seven years in the role he referred to as my TV wife, and that's my dear, late friend Stuart Scott, who is indeed looking over my shoulder tonight.
Over 40 years of loving Bob and still he astounds. His vodka paintbrush of absurdity, vaudeville, heartbreak and forgiveness and imagination of the infinite is still wet and painting backdrops backwards behind the Mirror into the wee hours of the morning of his opening night! We will always be suspended in his orbit.
Dear Viv promises a celebratory deeply personal portrait of The Vivienne's remarkable journey from their roots in North Wales and Liverpool to the global stage.
I've sat down to write this a hundred times and still don't know if the words will ever feel like enough... but from the bottom of my heart, thank you. The love, support, and beautiful messages I've received from so many of you have truly helped carry me through the hardest moment of my life.
During the encore of their shows, The Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse performed a cover of Black Sabbath's 'War Pigs.' Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse joined The Flaming Lips for this cover for the first time since 2006, creating an exciting moment for the crowd.
"Freya would make me laugh at any time. And I mean belly-laugh at the most random things, because that's just the kind of person that she was."
"Congratulations to Black Sabbath on the grand and final pealing of their vesper bells! Thank you for an astounding career that provided us and your legion of fans with a lifetime of beauty, horror, love, power, happiness, melancholy and a profoundly sublime, yet viscerally rocking transcendence informed by both doom and hope."