I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

Be like snow - cold, but beautiful.

Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud.

I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?

Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.

What happened to you?" she asked. "I got hit in the side." "With what?" "A knife.

You know... when one speaks your name very fast, it just sounds like just incredible

My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.