To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

Grace is the strength of greatness.

I’d like to tie you down tight with my love because you stole my precious heart.

Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you.

Knowledge is rarely enough to spark change; it takes emotion to bring knowledge to a boil.

Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.

Easy lives make boring people and things have definitely not been easy.

Indifference breeds animosity.

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.