Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers, “I steal them.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good.

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Life is a lonely business

Life is a lonely bussiness

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

My motto for creat

One of the most important things you need to do is to fulfill potential

I try to not be too hard on myself regarding my diet. I've always been a workout-to-eat kind of a girl. I like to eat, to say the least.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

No color will ever be brighter for me than black and white.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

Say to your soul, 'Let no unclean thing enter here.'

My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.

The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.