I try to preface everything with "this isn't new." Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm doing is new.

There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over."

Week-by-week you grow with your character and it's an interesting challenge.

I'm lucky; my parents have never said to me, "You're a kid, so you just don't know." They say, "How can we discuss the world and learn from these events together?"

I feel like there's no need to put on a heel that's too high. There's nothing cute about wobbling. There's nothing cute about not wanting to dance or walk somewhere because you're in pain.

I like to be in control of my body. Also, I love getting into character and exploring a different aspect of who I am.

I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album Life Is Good, and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible?

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner!

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!

I want to help people to not feel alone, like I feel and have felt for so long. Everybody's just trying their best. I guess I'm like an anti-star.