The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

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.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Hatred is like a tow-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself.

I've always been a fine artist.

And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.'.

I think we need to embrace feminism, we need to embrace all of the gifts women bring to the workplace.

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

I've always thought that people always wonder why conservatives don't stick together like liberals do. You know, they kind of throw the person to the wolves.

I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.