You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Love street! This is the right way.

In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm

We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future...

The philosophy of the rain is very simple: No obstacle is obstacle when you are strongly determined!

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right.

It is worth it to give up all that you now are to be all that you could become.