Put your weird in your work!

Things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow.

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

If your work appeals to everyone, it moves no one

The life you want doesn't exist. You have to make it up.

If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone — they have a potential to gain so much more.

You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

We're supposed to be the people who make culture, not decorate culture.

Go have fun and make money

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

We all create our own reality

Living with you will be likeaiming for a moving target

Working hard and succeeding will make you feel valuable and important - thus the cornerstones of a confident personality is you, yourself.

Instead of others, ask yourself, “Are you really okay?” Check on yourself like this and do a warm “Goodnight” to yourself.

When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.