It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.

CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.

You get to decide what to worship.

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends, and there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

We are who people think we are.