You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.

What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

Just reflecting on the fact that when the Universe punches you in the teeth, it never just lets you fall down. It kicks you in the ribs a couple of times and dumps mud on your head.

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.