In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.

The only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

Don't worry about doing research. Just search.

You can't find your voice if you don't use it.

Those ties...those ties are forever, and I never wanted to be connected to any other person so permanently. Forever was always meant for you and me, Spence.

We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.

If you believe something will make the world better, then it's always worth a try, even if you fail.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

I've been putting out sexually explicit images of myself for years. I know this sounds bizarre, but somehow it makes me feel safer.

You wanna be big, you lift big weights. You wanna be little, you lift little weights.

Forever made that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender.

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.