The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.