A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

My father used to say there are two kinds of people: the noticers and the noticed

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

I like to be provocative.

in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.