I worked in a boutique after work, my second job, selling women's clothes. And that was a way of not just making money but meeting women. That was very exciting job. I loved that job.

It's not about the outside, it's the inside. But dressing on the outside can help the inside.

If you love what you do, it won't be work.

Love is a key ingredient for creativity.

You can only be connected to others if you are connected to yourself and the truth inside.

It doesn't matter if it's raining and dark. The sun is shining above the clouds.

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.

Clothing should be quieter than the woman so that her true beauty can shine through.

Every day has its own challenges, and every day those challenges make us stronger.

Whatever energy you put out there, that's the energy you're going to get back.

Follow the truth to life and love what you do... Be passionate about it to the point where you’re willing to do anything for it.

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not.

Believing is not thinking something is true, Shireen. It is acting for the truth.

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.

Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.