My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

He's constantly threatening to bring it back to life, resuscitate it,

Sticks an' stones, love. I've saved your life an' you've saved mine. We're square.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.