Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

You get educated by traveling.

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.

Be Good-Do Good-Be One

Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers.

Silence by any other name is called shame.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars

We have [in Valerian] a bible that's 600 pages. There are five pages on each alien and where they come from. Even the address you can check on the map. On the star map. It's real numbers.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas.