As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in media and politics. I get a lot of inspiration from daily life.

'It's much better to understand than to be understood,' from my mom.

I enjoy working out. That is important for me. Whether it's a hike with my dog or an hour at the gym, I like to maintain an active lifestyle.

I think it is important to stay open to the world around you, so that you are constantly in a state of growth and evolution, which can only happen through inspiration.

Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.

I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all.

You have a choice. Take hold of your future or the past will take it for you.

He went to India to "find himself" last year, but evidently he wasn't there, and he came back empty-handed.

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

The less you knew, the fewer monsters you’d attract,

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

I've been very active in Missouri.

The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.

With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

I'm not living in the past, I don't want to go back - I don't want to "Make America Great Again." No, no, no.