If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided.

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.

I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitudewill be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.What I say now with one heartwill be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts...

from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...

Accept your life with love

[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.

We only have one person to blame, and that's each other.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.