I am angry. It is illegal for me to be angry. Remember: Don't get angry. It is illegal to be a black man and be angry. Right. Got it. I will remember this next time.

If I know that I can do something that makes me happy, why do I allow myself to get so depressed?

Knowledge is not always power.

You never know. Somebody can seem cool and then you look in their music library and there's Katy Perry.

I'm probably the only person in the world that feels physical pain as a reaction to joy.

I like lots of bands, and I LOVE fewer, but the list is still lengthy. I rarely pick a "favorite" because I think that's for laypeople who don't understand the infinite possibilities of music.

I dug her usage of "Spotify" as a verb.

Honesty isn't easy. Or comfortable.

I'm attracted to difficulty, I think. I'm attracted to guys who have truckloads of baggage. With them, it will never, ever be simple. And then they do or say one little magical thing and they own me.

I'm awful at hiding it when I'm miserable. Sometimes I think if I were better at it maybe I'd be able to fool myself. Trick the misery right out of me.

He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.

It is proven that the glass in your environment may be able to affect your health.

Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.

You've got to maintain your level of self-esteem through everything. You are who you are, and nobody will ever be able to take that from you if you don't let them

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

The road to the heart is the ear