I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

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.

Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.

People like you must create. If you don't create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.

He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything.

Sing your own song. There are always some earnest listeners.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.

Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

If this government is like the last one, then Iraq will break apart.

Say to yourself, 'I'm here on purpose, I can accomplish anything I desire, and I do it by being in harmony with the all-pervading creative force in the universe.