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

The only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.

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

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.

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.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

Don't worry about doing research. Just search.

You can't find your voice if you don't use it.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

The grass remains green only as long as you water it. Similarly, a relationship remains fresh only as long as you nurture it with love.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

[My music] is opposite to fashion.

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.