I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.

My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.

I assume Obama knows about stop and frisk, so this is not the person that should be the head of homeland security. I had to say something. Kelly's nomination would go against who President Obama is.

There are conservative people in all colours in America.

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

My mother's a pretty warm, open person.

I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

I think L.A. is beautiful.

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

Looking up at the stars only proves you admire them, but shining your light proves you are like them.

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

That One Who is greater than us is near - nearer than we could measure.

Angels only care about what you look like on the inside. A pure heart is the vessel that contains a soul's true beauty.

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.

I think as Christians, we all have the same calling, and that calling is to love God with all our heart, mind, and soul and love others as ourselves and to glorify God in everything that we do.

I'd say it's just part of the world that we live in; it's part of the music world.