“I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.”

Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?

Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.

Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything.

Nobody gets to tell your story.

I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury.

Einstein said ‘your imagination is more important than intelligence,’ and I have a very, very big imagination.

I was a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

God has saved me a million times, so I think He must’ve enjoyed my song.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

I feel free when I see no one and nobody knows my name.

When your happiness is someone else’s happiness, that is love.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It’s the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.

Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won’t fail forever.

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle.

We have to reconceptualize and understand that the act of pursuing our dreams and being our full selves is what allows us to feel alive.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive…that is where God is.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.

Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!

I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.