Our art is never really ours. Each person who experiences it brings to it a piece of themselves and reacts to it in ways that stem from their personal struggles, beliefs, morals, and even hang-ups.

When we give ourselves permission to go wherever our outlandish thoughts take us, we feel that rush of creativity and excitement.

Whether the changes that are coming in your life will be unexpected or determined by your choices and actions, the wheels are in motion. The adventure has just begun.

When you find your passion, turn a deaf ear to the naysayers and follow your dreams.

Spend one more day in pursuit of art that only you can produce, and somewhere, someone is envying your courage to do just that.

Putting our art out there is one of the biggest risks we can take. It's a special kind of vulnerability. It takes guts to be an artist.

I've realized I don't need to keep looking for my path. I'm already on it. I just need to trust where it leads.

As artists, it is our job to question the rules and ask if they are relevant or outdated, necessary or arbitrary, helpful or oppressive.

If your art is calling to you, its doing so for a reason. You are feeling a pull toward something for which your soul is yearning.

It's ever so fun and fulfilling to be clever, but more lasting and effective to be consistent.

Never let your goals or convictions get in the way of living your life. It's not about who dies with more, it's about who lived the most.

If I have only one coin left in the world, I will buy a rose to propose to you.

Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men.

My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don't use it to pray before a competition. I'll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case.

Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over.

I just want to be a better actor. You can always get better.