When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

When you trust people to help you, they often do.

As a child, my clothes were always tailored to be oversized, because I quickly outgrew them and then needed bigger ones. As an adult, I still don't cut my coat according to size

I am trying to ignore each of my thoughts and each of my stories and books... if I read them... they never sound well, but still we shouldn't go like...to do everything perfect and all perfect...

KURT: ....no way in hell he’s getting away with short changing you.”KERRY ANNE: But like you said, I don’t need it so why?KURT: Because it’s rightfully yours sweetheart.

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

Without discipline, Religion would be impossible

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

One must use the weapons one finds in one's path.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.