The right time is always right now.

Look back at your life. It's always the hardest times that made you who you are.

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

The biggest risk is to take no risk at all

Free time is the enemy of progress

It's the execution that matters, never the idea.

Without a goal, you can’t score.

If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows.

Everybody was dying, or already dead, or leaving other people, and the year was dying into winter, and the only thing to do was make some noise.

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that shit.

Imagination is an instrument of survival.

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

I thought I should be stronger than was possible.

I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for all eternity.

Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.