It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.
The pain will not go away by getting angry or bitter, it will go away when you learn to accept life's challenges with grace and ease
The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.
Love must be the first thought and the last thought of the day, if you wish to live in peace and happiness.
You can let hate, animosity and anger eat away at you, or you can let it go and begin again.
Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.
Let people do what they need to do to make them happy. Mind your own business, and do what you need to do to make you happy.
Sure, we had to be skinny. I lived on Diet Coke and apples for two years. For the couture, we had to get up at 4 am to be sewn into the clothes and there was huge pressure to be thin. But I made a million dollars by the time I was 20, I bought a town house in Manhattan and put myself through Columbia. Does that make me a victim?
Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.
I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry, of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points. Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in my head. The top part [of my artwork] is you letting go and floating. You become part of the air and you've tapped into the heartbeat of the universe. I guess that's what people do when they meditate.