Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

Il pleure dans mon coeurComme il pleut sur la ville.Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.

If I stress about a goal, I won't remember to find the way to get there.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.

If you don’t know about Tumblr then you are not supposed to know about Tumblr. It’s like fight club.

I go through phases when I've been filming where I wake up in the middle of the night and I think I'm being filmed.

I'm not here to be good. I'm here to be great.

and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

One of the things I love about music is live performance.