Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.

I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

You can't judge people by their cover.

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.

If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.

Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from.

Do something new and expect new result.

People with a style of denial and blaming are definitely on the list of unsafe people to avoid. 10.

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

I was maybe 10 or 11 when I saw 'Titanic.' And, yes, I was a fan. I loved it.

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.

Everything I do in my life is very aggressive.

We just don't want to repeat anything that we've done in the movies [X-man] or that we're going to do in the movies. There's so many stories to tell, we just want to stay out of each other's way.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.