As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.

You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

It takes a community to start a revolution.

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.

My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

Personal growth will cause a ripple effect as the growth in consciousness of enough people, one by one, can create general change, and lasting social improvements.

Escape is just a will away.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

History is written by those who hang heroes.

New research shows that men and women are born different. What must you think if that is shocking news to you? Men and women are born different.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.

I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.