I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

In its failure to value differences in the way people learn, the educational process often suppresses intuition, creativity, and your sense of identity.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights.

I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citizen rose up and did manual labour for eight hours.

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Some actors play themselves, don't they?

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.

If we don't become a country that makes things again, we won't have enough jobs for our people.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.