It is not about problems, it is about solutions

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.

Being truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.

[The Neon Demon] was more my own fascination with beauty. It's my children's fascination beauty.

It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.