If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel.

Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.