Invest in your brain, invest in your talents. Those things can appreciate and they get better as you get older.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

Nothing will make you look like an idiot faster than the fact that you don't know what you doing.

Happy is very abstract, you can't touch it.

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.

If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.

I will create value for society, rather than extract it.

I fear no secret of a person I trust, and he has no need to fear mine. It is part of being friends.