Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt.

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.

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.

The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end

Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.

I feel like if I were to play the game completely and just get myself in a giant bottle of nail polish and put myself on display, I would feel like I had somehow cosmically lost. I feel like I'm taking a bunch of the ingredients and using some of them but not all of them and shuffling around and making people think I'm doing my job.