My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my bo….

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..

I take things too seriously..

Wanderlust is incurable..

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience..

I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged..

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the ….

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry..

How can I dispose of myself with it?.

I know my sound when i hear it. My stroke is just my stroke..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us..

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around..

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have..

The bravest are the tenderest..

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over..

With skin, I really believe it has a lot to do with your genes. And I've been really lucky..

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here..

Time is 'to make'. it is not 'to have'..

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing..