Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.