Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.

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.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

In this city [Palermo] . . . it's the souls of the dead who bring presents to the children. . . . We go to the cemetery to ask the dead for toys.

If you establish an identity, you build a monster-and thats right, youve got to live with it. Of course, you can enjoy it, too.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

The day you really want to end all hunger, there will be no more hunger.

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

Sometimes you have to make bold choices, creatively. I'm always in favor of that.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.