The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

We all have our strengths and our failings.

When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.

Curvy is just a polite way of saying fat.

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.

It is so cool to think that there are two female, Indian actresses on prime-time American network television who are considered attractive and funny and smart.

If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

Keep the body's energy frequencies high by always thinking positively.

Leadership is not for the faint of heart

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.

If God is not sovereign, God is not God.

The pop world has really opened its doors.