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

It's fun to imagine what you could do with that kind of money. I could buy that island I've wanted to buy all my life, and live there with my family. Or I could buy some great piece of art that's just going to feed my eyes every day. It's fun to toy with the notion of that, and it is very tempting because money, unfortunately is freedom in today's world.

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.

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

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