It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

Ultimately, the one thing that makes a family is love.

Your charming smile makes me travel to the realm of the stars.

The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons.

I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.

I've been recognized in airports lots of places, but mostly getting recognized is at home.

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

Just 'cause somethin' ain't been done Don't mean it can't be did.

I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.