I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Still, I could find no good reason for not going. So I decided to go.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.

He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.

Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.

Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

Love is a fault; so be it.