All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.

I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

I have always been a business person.

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.

The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible.

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.

From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.