The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence
Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.
I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.
The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.
Writing must always have intention because words have power.
I will not dance to your war drum!
I've read too many books to believe what I am told.
I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.
Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.
Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.
Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.