Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

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.

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.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind.

Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. she was the one whose words hurt him.

Sometimes things seem good at first . . . but we learn the hard way that they weren't as good as we thought.

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

I don't know what happens when people die Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear That I can't sing I can't help listening

Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.

I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.