The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

If there's love in a house, it's a palace for sure.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.