The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

The privileged, we’ll see time and again, are processed more by people, the masses by machines.

If I’m a monster, mademoiselle, it’s because man’s cruelty has made me so.

I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.

Italians stay so true to their classic silhouettes and the things that they've always done.

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

What is fear but courage's shadow?

I keep thinking Naruto... That one of these days your going to finally grow up!

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.