How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

To perceive is to suffer.

Wonder is the antidote to religion.

The next parent who Googles Is my 2-year-old gifted? should get a curt response: Your 2-year-old is a gift.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

How imperfect is all our knowledge!

We are the market, we know what we want.

Love: You're not meant to wait for it. You're not meant to search for it. You're meant to generate it.

Listen to everyone, read everything; believe absolutely nothing unless you can prove it in your own right!