I don't control my thoughts but I control how I express them
   (both to myself and to the outside world) The reason I do that
   is because of the ease of being misunderstood. Communication is
   a two way situation: There is transmitter and receiver both. I
   have to keep in mind the receiver as well as myself, the
   transmitter, if I want to successfully communicate. I used to
   express my every thought as I thought them when I was a little
   boy. But I was always misunderstood because I communicated in a
   way they didn't understand. Hence, always feeling like an alien
   plopped on earth, trying to figure out this strange human being
   that I am and this world of humans I inhabit. So, I'm in a
   continual state of translation. Whatever is internal, I
   translate, and then express. I listen, translate, process. I'm
   always conscious of the translation process. Sometimes it's not
   always easy.