“Once they show you their true color, paint them grey.”

Be careful who you let into your circle. Not everyone deserves to be your friend.

No matter how much you plan your life, it will turn out differently

Failure is very much necessary on any journey to success.

Life is a lonely journey. We expect and even believe that someone will always be there for us, but that illusion fades away with age and time.

Everyone has their own time to get their fortune. Be happy for others while you wait for your time.

You don’t need to pour your love on somebody else who does not even absorb it.

Escape from the known to get to know yourself, converse with strangers to understand yourself, travel far from noise to find yourself, and listen to your silence to feel yourself. Because being away from everything pushes you to look inside, find your peace and live awake.

Everyone has their own time to get their fortune. Be happy for others while you wait for your time.

You don’t need to pour your love on somebody else who does not even absorb it.

He’s fully committed to appreciating his body with all its flaws and imperfections, more and more every day.

If you are powerfully embracing your physical body and your sexuality, you are living fully in your humanness and that is as spiritual as it gets.

The heart will find its way.

Find yourself a friend who asks about your dreams and aspirations, your fears and insecurities.

You don’t have to convince or please to no one, but yourself.

I would rather fail to do what I love than hide behind the success of what feels safe.

Self-love ultimately is knowing your limit on compromising and where you draw the line. People will tell you different things, making their own opinions sound like facts, but it is only you who can decide what your truth is.

But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.

I don’t judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they’re a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.

Watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

just to show people the range that I have, and for them to be able to see the artistry beyond the color.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling…

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. ‘Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain’t getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.’

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.