Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

Like many natural beauties, New York is effortlessly photogenic. It has fabulous bones and hardly any bad angles.

Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear, by which I mean pajamas.

The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past.

We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

We tend to get a little information before we off people. It’s not a play by ear sort of deal.

Broken people don't hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

You have to be a little bad to make history.

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.

I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who I am and my voice.