I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

The hands find a way to do what the heart wants to say

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

The commandment was to ‘Love thy neighbor, ’ not ‘Love thy government.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.

I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.

Everyone can afford to give away a smile.

I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

I don't like hiding. I do like to keep certain things to myself, but at the end of the day, I'm eighteen, and I'm going to fall in love.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.