You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Lucky to have been where I have been

Well, I won't give up on us, Even if the skies get rough I'm giving you all my love, I'm still looking up

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Surrender creates equanimity and bliss because you release yourself from any attachment to the results.

If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.

Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true.

I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close friends or families.

Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.