In the music world, when we're making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else - sort of like an athlete, where you become a role model to someone.

Always remember there is nothing worth sharing, like the love that let us share our name.

Sometimes I'm extremely afraid of the unknown, but I'm so grateful to be on that journey.

In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things.

I think everyone on the planet is a fan of a painting because everyone is a fan of visual stimulation, but I've had freedom in the world [of painting] because I've kept it to myself.

Whether it's about children or not, we have to move forward.

We have to continue to grow within and outwardly. We have to keep going.

One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

To me, humor is part of a conversation with an audience.

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

I have always found peace among books.

Sometimes... the first step to forgiveness is realizing that the other person... is batshit crazy.

Stop surrounding yourself with people who engage in acts to break you and bring you down. Isn't it obvious that they are desperately seeking for some people to join them at the bottom?

The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

The person of power uses their power to open up their mind to higher levels all the time, which creates tremendous happiness.

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.

Success is ninety-nine percent failure.

You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.

A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the depths of one's heart can be seen.