Point your feet in the direction you want to go and your life will follow.

​To go where you're wishing you could go, first you must tie your shoes and step off the porch.

Learn to put your troubles in your pocket, then leave them there when you do your laundry.

Relationships are like apples: they can be sweet and satisfying. But once you bite into a bad one, it's hard to go back to the barrel again.

​Live the truth and everything else will fall into place.

Don't judge people you don't know. You have no idea what they've been through, and you may waste an opportunity to make a new friend.

​Life is a series of highs and lows. The trick is to tip the balance in your favor by following your heart and taking some risks.

As we age, the bright light of youth either burns out or burns stronger - it's our choice.

The only thing worse than women are women who tell me I'm a misogynist.

Try saying hello to someone who wouldn't expect you to - today would be good.

If finding true love was easy we'd all have a lot more free time.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

In the journey of success, the only person that has to believe in your dreams is nobody else but yourself.

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'

There's been so many, I think [Lucas Goodman and I] share this, but for us, Afropunk was a really big moment just because it was in New York.

The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.