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

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.

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.

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.

The retail industry has its own headache: it loses $16 billion a year to customers who buy clothes, wear them with the tags tucked in, and return these secondhand clothes for a full refund.

There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.

Until you have heard the whippoowill, either nearby or in the fain - distance, you have not experienced summer night.

I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an actor.

We put out a live thing, it seemed more like a bootleg though but, it would be nice to see like a concert filmed with like good cameras you know, instead of just DV cams.

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

West Bengal belongs to Bengalis. We should live here like a king and not as servants.

When someone offers me a job or a project, I always ask myself, "What does it tell me about the world?" and "Have I seen it before?" Two good questions.