I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.

I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.

I live to die; better that than to live a lie.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.

The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

You know, if Nicole Kidman was a rock star, she'd be alot more professional than me, I'm sorry.

I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Men must go out of their minds.

Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've actually been working for seven.