“Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.”

“you can't change your destiny! but you can create your own destiny!”

“Peace is an art as much as war is, and knowing when and how to negotiate peace is the art's highest form.”

“The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.”

“Yes, if it is meant to be, it will be. In the meantime, create your own fate. Plan big and dream bigger.”

“Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.”

“I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.”