They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

Two things have always ruptured up and through hegemony: art and bodies.

Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

The biggest lesson is that you write the best songs when you're being real, an honest and you mean what you're saying, not trying to be something you're not.

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

I really wanna work with Kanye West. He's one of the few people I haven't got to work with yet that I really wanted to.