Happiness is nothing but a state of mind which only your thoughts and beliefs could place you in.

No one is too old for fairy tales.

I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

I really put a lot of and emotion into my project in order to evoke emotion.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

Most of us grow up with a sense of "I'm not intelligent enough." It's such a sad thing that in the West we worship a certain kind of left-brain intelligence.

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.