I love it when I come across a word I don't know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren't smart enough to come along with me.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

How much others love you is not very important, but how much you love yourself will define your success.

In the current state of society, it seems to me that man is corrupted more by reason than by passion.

Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are

When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.