If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

People say, 'Oh, God, how devastating to go through a divorce.' Did I wish for this to happen to my family? No. But everyone is healthy; we're moving on with our lives.

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

One time I was forced to go to the doctors because of a sports accident. Herpes.

Meekness is the mask of malice.