I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable hearing myself sing, I sang in another accent.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

Just be yourself and one day you will find someone who loves you for everything you are, flaws or no flaws.

You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.

The truth is limitless in its range, if you drop the T and look at it in reverse it could hurt.

Chief Keef scares me... not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.

Making your moves, paying your dues, chasing the cool.

Takes a long time to happen so fast... To realize that your future is somebody else's past

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

My problem is I’m peaceful, and I believe in the people.

Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it

Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking.

Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

Who decides when the applause should die down? It seems like it's a group decision; everyone begins to say to themselves at the same time, "Well, okay, that's enough of that."

I cross out words so you will see them more

Most of all, Creation must be protected for its own sake, even if we currently assign no value or an incorrect value to it.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.