The touring makes you take a step back. It makes you realize how your lifestyle has changed.

Margaritas are my favorite. And my fiance makes them just perfect.

I think I always keep coming back to certain pieces, the idea of essential, elegant, easy wardrobe.

It is never a good idea to not be comfortable.

My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

If you are trying to sell someone your idea and you can't even define it to yourself, then that is a problem.

I have always loved sneakers and sweaters, and I wear a lot of them. And a good t-shirt or a pair of jeans can make you feel so good.

In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.

I still love when any editor today says, "it's so cool what you do", or "you inspired me". All these little things make you realize that people are reading your site and that you have an influence.

I love breakfast, so I'd probably spend a long time on that. And breakfast food matters so I'd make sure it is the best food - great fruit and such.

It is still important that every project I do I do something real, that feels true to me.

Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for.#StokesNotes

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.

It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

If you live to be 100 years old, what you've done here for the last two days, weeks, monthswhat you've done here will echo in eternity.

Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.

Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.