I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.
You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.
Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.
I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.
I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.
To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a flower. The shape of a butterly's wing. The juxtaposition of an old tenement building next to a shiny new skyscraper.
There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.
I don't think there are any clichés I try to avoid. As soon as I spot a cliché, I go for it. I feel like clichés are the most useful thing in songwriting. They're the tool on which you build all the rest of the song.
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes. . . we have to get. . . out of here. " So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading with the entire cast in the room for The Clone Wars makes the experience much more organic and I love that.
We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other.