I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

It’s comforting to me, ” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

Buying wine is a political act.

It's flattering that people want to know so much about me and want to take the time to make up that many things about me.

There is a light which cannot ever be extinguished. It is inside of you... It is you.

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.