My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

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.

All things remarkable are surprisingly simple

Nothing nice happens to murdered women.

Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself, they're much less than the consequences of selling your soul.

You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff.

We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept.

I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.

People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.

We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. Everything is first based on something being known.

There are no short cuts. If you want to do something special, there's a serious price to pay. There's no way around it.