I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.

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.

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

Once we're past 2012 I think it will be very difficult NOT to be enlightend

Have character; don't be a character.

You’re the reason I breathe

I started as a standup comic and an actor.

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

Without Grace you cannot do anything.

Dare to believe, and then dare to speak, and you shall have whatsoever you say if you doubt not.

I was once arrested for resisting arrest.