All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been.

I never practice, I always play.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes.

To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

The first time you do something only happens once.