I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

I am a hopeless romantic and so is my wife.

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.

Don't worry about my life, worry about why you're worried about my life!

The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them behind.

Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other and both together make up one whole.

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.

Don't take 'no' for an answer. Keep knocking down walls until someone says 'yes.'

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.

Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still.

Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring

Nothing's better than a picnic.