If I want to dress myself a certain way, I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do it for me.

The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.

I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.

I hope to do a visual for every 
single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.

I don’t know if I’m a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. 
 I was like, ‘Mum, it hurts.’

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.

I'm a little bit older, I've traveled the world, spent lots of time in New York and Paris and lots of inspiring places, and I still feel alien.

I don't understand people's obsessions.

We live in a very strange world where everything is so accessible; if you like one song someone did, you can see what they ate for breakfast or what kind of sunglasses they wore.

I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

The worst is not always certain but it's very likely.

Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day.

It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

The best politics is right action.

He who strays discovers new paths.

You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?