I get really fantastic results when I just get out of my own way.

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.

I am not for or against anyone or anything

Wrong turns make the right turn all the more worthwhile, once discovered.

I'm tired of playing the brat.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

Everybody has fear. The difference is that the coward does not control fear and the brave... gets over it.

And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.