I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

The person she liked best didn't like her enough to want more of her, and she didn't want to pretend that wasn't awful.

No level of attention is ever enough to sacrifice your dignity.

The one kiss that was stolen, was given in a lie.

If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself.

It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.

When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

If it rusts, it can never be trusted If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him Yes, pride is Like a blade.