Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.

Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.

I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.

Music is always the first thing I notice when I go someplace new.

Writing catchy pop songs is a super-minor superpower, but it's mine.

Sad songs are not my strong suit. All the songs that have saved my life make you feel like driving with the top down or dancing in your room with your best friend.

Passion is never pathetic.

The threat of failure shouldn't kill the fun of dreaming.

The way she says kiss, it sounds different. Like she invented the word specifically for the song.

Electricity crackles from her lips to mine and I'm stunned it's not visible.

They are kissing—finally, extravagantly, like it's the first thirty seconds of a kissing competition and they can't imagine they'll ever get tired.

What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?

No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.

Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.

So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]

No talent, but yet a character. [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago.

To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.

If it's not impossible, you may as well try. If it is impossible, at least you'll find out why.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.