The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.

My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!

That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

Everything happening to you now is a signal or symbol and has meaning. Your opportunity is to recognize the meaning and utilize it in your life.

History is past politics and politics present history.

I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.

I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats in there.

Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

People want to feel effortless about their clothes. I don't always get it, I make a lot of mistakes, but that's my goal.

Climate change has been associated so much with a peaceful mentality - obviously peace and love are good, but we need to think about climate as a threat to survival.

My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.

Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.