I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.

To Survive In A Ruined World, She Must Embrace The Darkness…

I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.

I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

Who are we beyond the roles that we play?

If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast.

We all make mistakes. It's how we come back from the mistakes that matters.

I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.