I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

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.

I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.

If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.

I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.