Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.

When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."

I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.

We may look great on Instagram, but we're still lonely and depressed and anxiety-ridden. I hope, for the sake of our future generations, that our moral compass stays intact.

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

When you follow your heart, you always win and it feels so good.

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away...

It's always the lesser of two evils.''I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.'-Connor

My father lost me to the Beast at cards

That is why we climb. We climb to reach safety. We climb to reach hope.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.

There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.

I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.