Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

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.

Deeply happy people are even thankful for the trials and tragedies they pass through.

We are both a student and a teacher from birth. How eagerly we embrace these roles determines how fulfilled we are with our lives.

My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.

Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.

Right now my life has an expiration date determined by my bank balance. Can I find something before my time is up?

What’s the point of being a magician if you can’t wave your wand and make the people you care about feel better?

Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can't do any of them well - and I like to do everything perfectly.

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.