You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.

Your career and your passion don't always match up.

It is your life, enthusiastically accept the challenge.

Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.

If you have a family member who maybe is undocumented, then you have an even greater reason to vote.

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself.

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.