The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

Look back at your life. It's always the hardest times that made you who you are.

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

The biggest risk is to take no risk at all

Free time is the enemy of progress

The right time is always right now.

It's the execution that matters, never the idea.

Without a goal, you can’t score.

If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows.

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.

The normal food of man is vegetable.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

Explore the internet long enough and you'll see completely balls out madness there.