I'm privileged that I'm an artist.

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.

When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."

I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.

We may look great on Instagram, but we're still lonely and depressed and anxiety-ridden. I hope, for the sake of our future generations, that our moral compass stays intact.

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

When you follow your heart, you always win and it feels so good.

Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents

Directing is not a job. It's more like a career. Which is great!

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look.

The Olympics are kind of weird. You have to be on a team. That's cool if you're a skier. But in snowboarding, you just want to be your own person.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.