Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.

It is ultimately your choices that decide your destiny.

It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.

What is required of thee, O man, but to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with thy God. Micah 6:8

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

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.

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.