I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time.

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.

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.

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.

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

Everything, good or bad, was down to me.

If he's the person i think he is, he'll handle it just right" Tarah had said. "If not, your better off without him.

If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.

We're in a very unique time where noise equals, in a lot of people's perception, advocacy. And I fundamentally disagree with that.

I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.