I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

As long as you leave to others the responsibility to make you happy, you are going to be miserable, because it is actually your job.

I'm a chemistry guy. I believe you've got to play together to have a chance to win.

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.

As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of the radicals that I identify with.