Knowledge is not always power.

If I know that I can do something that makes me happy, why do I allow myself to get so depressed?

You never know. Somebody can seem cool and then you look in their music library and there's Katy Perry.

I'm probably the only person in the world that feels physical pain as a reaction to joy.

I like lots of bands, and I LOVE fewer, but the list is still lengthy. I rarely pick a "favorite" because I think that's for laypeople who don't understand the infinite possibilities of music.

I dug her usage of "Spotify" as a verb.

I am angry. It is illegal for me to be angry. Remember: Don't get angry. It is illegal to be a black man and be angry. Right. Got it. I will remember this next time.

Honesty isn't easy. Or comfortable.

I'm attracted to difficulty, I think. I'm attracted to guys who have truckloads of baggage. With them, it will never, ever be simple. And then they do or say one little magical thing and they own me.

I'm awful at hiding it when I'm miserable. Sometimes I think if I were better at it maybe I'd be able to fool myself. Trick the misery right out of me.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

This was why I hated beautiful people. They build you up and then they destroy you. And we let 'em.

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet.

It's hard to be always the same person.

Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.

I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way.

If you can create community in a classroom the kids will not drop out

People always ask me to list my greatest accomplishments, expecting me to rattle off a bunch of movies I've made, but what I'm proudest of is my kids.

Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.