When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.

The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.

I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.

I hope to do a visual for every 
single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.

I don’t know if I’m a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. 
 I was like, ‘Mum, it hurts.’

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.

I'm a little bit older, I've traveled the world, spent lots of time in New York and Paris and lots of inspiring places, and I still feel alien.

I don't understand people's obsessions.

We live in a very strange world where everything is so accessible; if you like one song someone did, you can see what they ate for breakfast or what kind of sunglasses they wore.

I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make.

Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

Being lucky in love might be less a matter of luck and more a matter of paying attention.

Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us.

I guess chemistry always changes when you play with someone else.

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.

Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.