An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

He is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.

I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south you're going from snow to palm trees.

We believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.

I always keep my repertorial hat on.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.