I can fall asleep anywhere.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

There was plenty for the eye to feast on, but nothing for the soul. He had a hunger for something that no sky could satisfy. Somewhere on the planet there had to be a different kind of light.

We often learn to just earn dirty paper and forget to gain the wisdom needed to earn a life.

Jesus was a strange hobo who walked on water—

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma. Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama.

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

Raw I'mma give it to ya, with no trivia. Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.