I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

This is my life homie, you decide yours

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

I enjoyed every minute of directing my first film. Hopefully, I will be doing it many, many more times in the future.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

I have so many goals.

You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.