It's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.

Politicians and children have two speeds: running and asleep.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed.

There are three categories of people in America: those who are afraid, those who don't know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.

Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

Be passionate. If you are passionate, you will ultimately succeed.

In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.