I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

The world is a drought when out of love.

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn’t, with lotion, polish, and kindness.

For the land's sake, Sarah Gale, let the earth turn on its axis, and don't be forever tryin' to stop it. There ain't but one law of progress, so far as I know, and that's by changes.

I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.

The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

My father is an absolute inspiration and such a gifted filmmaker. I have learned and continue to learn so much from him.

You might be a redneck if your father encourages you to quit school because Larry has an opening on the lube rack.

Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.

Like everything in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given.