Hip-hop music, in my opinion, is still very closed-minded, and if you're trying to do something that's too different, you get categorized as trying to do some kind of "alternative hipster" thing.

Nothing can dwindle to nothing, as Nature restores one thing from the stuff of another, nor does she allow a birth, without a corresponding death.

You have to be adroit and also patient to make others agree to your terms.

Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.

Love has to be reciprocated for it to be real.

Anyone who tells you that the core issue is the needs of those living here illegally has simply spent too much time in Washington.

Only thing on right now, like a night light.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Tell them to stand closer apart.