Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories.

There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

You work hard and you pray, and you do something where you know the energy around the project is right, but you never really know if it's going to hit and resonate with audiences.

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

It's never too soon to worry. Worry spurs preparation.

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.

We all scribble poetry.

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

God does not owe me an explanation for what He does in my life. And if I am looking for that to feel better about my suffering, then I'm not going to get it.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.