I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Real compassion only exists in silence

One smile heals the planet because it spreads like a virus from one to the next without care for the perfect environment.

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

People just get kicks out of making other people sad.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

Success had gone to my head and I made stupid decisions.

Focus on identifying your target audience, communicating an authentic message that they want and need and project yourself as an "expert" within your niche.

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.

I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.