My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.

The whole universe interest me.

No matter what you do, you're always hearing something.

There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.

Please don't suggest that I think we normalize relations with Tehran tomorrow. We don't. But I would like to see us move forward, and hopefully some day that will happen.

Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people from one writer's point of view.

As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.