There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

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.

...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.

Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I'll be right here with you.

If I didn't make a single song in two months, I'm slippin'. You can't just party every night.

Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.

When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal.

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.