"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still"

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter"

"Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?"

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes"

"I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed"

“Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself”

"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned"

"And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration."

"I am happy and content because I think I am"