So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

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.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

life is full of wonders, but you ca't have rainbows without rain, lightning and thunder

Good leaders are always in the “act” of leading. They listen as much to others as they listen to themselves.

Great is the mercy of God.

To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.

So every year when Christmas comes, I realize a new, the best gift life can offer is having friends like you.

Reject every form of corruption.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.