No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.

I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.

If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

Playing 'Tetris' for 15 minutes is like meditation.

I'm down with Spotify. I don't know all the financial details but generally it's a great resource.

I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.

I feel like you constantly have to prove why you deserve to continue to exist.

But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.

You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something.

Be abnormal

I'm not going to tell [Vladimir] Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do?

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

I don't paint, I hit.

I honestly don't hate asylum seekers - these people are cockroaches and they're doing what cockroaches do because cockroaches can't help what they do, they just do it, like cats miaow and dogs bark.

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.