The pattern's laid out on the bedWith dozens of colors of threadBut you've got the needleI guess that's the point in the end

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

My faith gives me the ability to say, whatever is next, I'm ready. If it is Hillary or Trump I am ready because they might sit on the desk but they do not sit on the throne.

Isn't it awkward how some people constantly make fun of other people's weaknesses while ignoring to improve on theirs?

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

[Donald] Trump's pension for distractions is starting to frustrate members of his own party.

Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

The best way to have your people be happy and satisfied is to earn the right to have them come back to work for you the next day, knowing that there are tons of other places.

There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

We ring the bells and we raise the strain We hang up garlands everywhere And bid the tapers twinkle fair, And feast and frolic - and then we go Back to the same old lives again.