“It’s tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.”

Fashion has always been my defense mechanism.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

Let go of the things that make you feel dead! Life is worth living!

Never underestimate a man’s ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes.

People hesitate to follow their desires because they don’t know how to divide their soul from their spirit.

She could beat me, but she could not beat my outfit.

I believe everybody’s an individual. You can’t judge someone based on someone else’s actions.

Ask God for forgiveness, and leave your regrets in the past.

I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

You can’t master your future if you’re still a slave to your past.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug.

Put your troubles aside and start living.

I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.

We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.

There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.

When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say ‘from Robbins, Illinois’ instead of ‘Chicago, Illinois.’

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.

If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.

I am none of these; I’m a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual.