I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

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.

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace

If anyone scolds you., just receive it thankfully.Because, they wants you to become a best person than before.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

Balance the cost of the soul you lost with the dreams you lightly sold.

Oh, I've never been asked a silly question in my entire life.

I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.