My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

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.

Hanson got to sleep with you, and I didn't, ” he said, his own jaw a little tight. “So I stole his car.

A poem is its own name and cover.

I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.