I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.

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.

The ultimate winner in life is one who receives the grace given to us by Jesus Christ and lives life accordingly.

1052The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause

The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back on the web to make them add up to more than the sum of their parts.

Once a maggot, always a maggot.

There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.

After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]