I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.

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.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

There is no such thing as a dumb question but there is such a thing as a dumb person asking a question.

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.

Don't let them tell you ain't beautiful

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.