Every romantic knows that love was never a noun

What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?

If you're alive, you're creative.

Take yourself out of the center of other people's universe - it will free you up and let the universe turn more easily.

My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart with my deeds. My endless love is expressed with more than just my words

it’s being branded a failure that causes the most pain

Matter. noun: what we’re made of

We are always - always- in choice.

We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.

Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.

Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.

If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

I think that once somebody sees something, or feels it in the consciousness of society, it starts to allow change for other people.

I've seen all this tussling about what is [Donald] Trump ideologically and Jim Carney said he's a liberal and people saying, look, he's winning moderates. Chris Christie is an example of this.

Tall, thin, curvy, short – whatever you are, you are beautiful.

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like.

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.