You can not achieve anything if you just sit and complain.Try your best with everything you have.

In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry.

Never underrate your confession. Destiny transformation begins when you begin to make positive confession about yourself

My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was "surprised with thunder" that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was "as deep as the sea".

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

I've gotten "condescending" a million times, and that's not good.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

We will not conquer our obstacles by running away from them. Speed does not matter, just that we do not stop.

My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.

I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.