I realize that people need something to believe in.

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.

Once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less.

Only when you are able to hear the songs of a tree will you be able to understand the magnificence and magic of life.

I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.

My weight is always perfect for my height - which varies.

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.