Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.

When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."

I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.

We may look great on Instagram, but we're still lonely and depressed and anxiety-ridden. I hope, for the sake of our future generations, that our moral compass stays intact.

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

When you follow your heart, you always win and it feels so good.

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

Lets be honest, L.A. is not a bad place to live. There are some crazy people there, but I tend to get on with them!

To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed to be.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

A country's middle class is its bedrock.

Design does not really interest me

Even though I have many obstacles in my life, I don't want people to feel bad for me.

As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.