I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

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.

Do not strive to be perfect. Strive to be perfectly imperfect.

Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes.

With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair.

Rising and falling of my journey made me strive for more in life.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.

Love is an obsolete emotion, ranking in usefulness somewhere between earwigs and toe mold.