Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.

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.

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.

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

It's highly important to always bear in mind that continuous negative thoughts and belief can unquestionably reverse your true destiny in life.

Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.

Friendship is the holiest of gifts; God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us! It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain. Everyone can have a friend, Who himself knows how to be a friend.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

It’s been a secret too long, but I’m actually a straight male.

Stop thanking god for your parking spot. He had nothing to do with it, and if he did, I want nothing to do with him.

We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.

Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.