I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.

Never give up on what makes you smile

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.

I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.

See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

The more challenges life deals us, the more scars experiences give us, the higher we go, the better we get.

To have an independant mind, to think for oneself, not to follow fashion, not to seek honour or decoration, not to become part of the establishment

The healing power of charity, bestowed by our Father and made possible by the Atonement of Jesus Christ, can make it virtually impossible for us even to feel emotions common to the natural man.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

He just got his body between himself and the goal.

I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.