Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

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.

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

And what if I'm the one who kills him?" "My heart is your heart," he said, "My hands are your hands.

There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Everything was a constant battle. My first film was beautiful. I got an amazing cast. That worked out great. Everything else was like murphy's law. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.

With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colours. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels.

Human nature craves novelty.