Beauty isn’t about having a pretty face. It’s about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.
I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.
And see she flies, and she is everywhere.
History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.
The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soulmate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.
When you meet your ‘soul mate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, No agitation.
When life sucks, throw yourself into art.
The only value of wasted time is knowledge.
Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.
In the middle of a wrist’s suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there’s an acupuncture point that says, “Get back to who you were meant to be.”
I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what’s going on in the world around me.
The fans are especially amazing in Mexico. You look out your window, and there are fans that stay out there all night long.
I think my favorite thing is when people send me Instagram photos of people’s yearbooks, and one guy will put “Are you calling me a liar?,” and his friend will have “I ain’t calling you a truther.” And those are people’s actual yearbook quotes. That’s so amazing.
I love the atmosphere at the mall – everything about Christmas. I don’t think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves.
Most people spend their lives on their endeavors, and I get the privilege to have been doing this since I was five. I get to go play and have fun and entertain people.
Hopefully I’ll fit the television in there. Maybe it’ll be like music and television and movies. I mean, who knows? But hopefully I can be successful at everything I do.
I don’t really have a certain format that I go by.
The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part’s the luxury.
I would like to work with Paul McCartney in the future. Or Brian Seltzer. But I guess like, like I said – I’m into The Strokes, like Ben Folds, Eliot Smith, the Beatles are my favorite, the Beach Boys, Queen.
Play every day. I don’t know. I’m not sure what kind of advice I would give. You just have to do it every second that you can.