I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

I want to get my music out there. I enjoy playing shows; I just don't enjoy airports. I want to be more creative, but it's hard to get into that zone on tour.

I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

I dove into the craziness and did things that maybe I would think twice about when I get older.

In every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.

I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Not everyone is worth listening to.

There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...

Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process.

People are intimately bound up with the diversity of life on Earth.

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.