Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.

I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.

My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department.

If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.

Education is the key to self-development and empowerment

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

Mia, ' she whispered. I turned around. 'What?' I whispered back.She smiled at me a little. 'LEEERRROOOY JEEENNKKIINNNSS!' she shouted, then spun around and ran toward the Z's in the lighting section.

I didn't want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.

I like people who try to do big things.

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

When someone asks about Boston, I put my brain on pause. I feel like I took a 5,000 pounds off my back to be here.

Christmas cards ... are technically only junk mail from people you know.

Freddy Demann (Shakira's Manager) is a man that knows the world of music. And I know that I am in good hands.