My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty

I like the idea of craziness with discipline.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus...

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.

Everybody got a deal, I did it without one

I danced with passion to spite the music.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is.

Anger's my meat. I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding.