I think theater will always be my first love. Ive been doing it since I was nine, and theres nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

It's amazing that it's considered revolutionary to wear my hair the way it grows out of my head.

People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.

If you really want more, then cross the door and get to the shore.

Strategy doesn't change when hard times arrive. Consumers' willingness to try, and to stay loyal, remains, the goal. Winners know this; their brand focus and strategy remains consistent.

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

The bigger the game the better. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I feed off big crowds and noise.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.

The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.