I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there

Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

Being surrounded by six Brendons is so not fun.

Things always become obvious after the fact

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.

The wind always brings us back to the same wall

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.

At the beginning I didn't even really think about making a movie [Dream of Life]. I was just thinking of documenting somebody.