I am everyone I have ever loved.

Things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow.

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

If your work appeals to everyone, it moves no one

The life you want doesn't exist. You have to make it up.

If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone — they have a potential to gain so much more.

You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

We're supposed to be the people who make culture, not decorate culture.

Put your weird in your work!

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

Protect me from my friendsI can take care of my enemies

A glove is a very literal looking hand puppet.

Ugh! Why can't Hell stay where it's at? Why does it always have to break loose?

God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.

There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.

Everything in television is dumbing down even further and it won't stop until somebody dies.

I'm not really a girly girl.

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.