When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it

A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

Flies are the price we pay for summer.

The sky is a meadow of wildstar flowers.

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Fittings are boring, but it's fun when you get to wear something new and go to a new event. I have a massive say in what I wear - I work really closely with my stylist.

Remember, people make you who you are.

I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

I've done loads of collaborations and I'm never totally happy with the outcome because it feels like you're compromising something of yourself in it.

I think it's cool to come out of somewhere where you're being pushed into this mold and then you figure out in that who you are.

I schooled in the Boston area.