It's crazy how we always hate the things closest to us.

Bandwagons roll through our lives. Its up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.

I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.

You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

I have always been restless, had a lot of energy.

Everything you think today will ultimately reflect in your future. So think carefully, think better.

I wonder now if [the gods] take from us that which we love so we must seek them, if only to scavenge for meaning in this existence.

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Life turns on a dime. have no idea what tomorrow will bring... sure life would be a lot easier if we knew what was going to happen. You've got to live by faith one day at a time.

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

I don't know if Jared Leto or Leo [DiCaprio] would ever do Fuller House, but you never know.

Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water.

You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.

We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.