What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.

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.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

Never underestimate the healing power of silliness and absurdity.

Someone was tapping on the window.

They will never count me among the broken men.

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was Glory.

He believes that "To persevere is favorable."