I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

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.

Fear is a sign to prepare yourself, not to stop.

To welcome the present with an open hand and heart, let your past go with appreciation.

He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.

These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.

Ideal women: 36-24-36, five foot seven, flat spot on top of the head, deaf mute. The flat spot on the top of the head is for your drink.