I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?"

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

My memory is good for some things and not others.

Your Nationality or any other Affiliation isn’t written on your forehead or any visible part of your body. It is shown by the way you Pride Yourself.

My dream was always to hop up on stage in front of my fans every night and perform.

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.

The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.

You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.