You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.

I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.

I think the future of food is in insects.

Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.

Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.

I'm done living for other people. I'm done being a people pleaser. I'm done thinking about what people think about me.

Every single morning you wake up with the opportunity to be yourself, or be the idea of someone else. For me it is all about... my favourite mantra is: "You do you. I do me. They do they."

Every single character in the world, every creature in the world has something to give and something to learn.

My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees.

I'll never, ever think of myself as famous, even if I ever get to the point of George Clooney... because I Think you might go crazy if you start reffering to yourself in those terms.

Have you thanked your body today? Be grateful, stay positive.

With time, scars turn into wisdom.

Acceptance for me is loving what “is” and not in looking back at the past. I do not need to know what the future holds either- if the present is good, can the future be anything less than good?

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

As proud as I am of Doo-Wops I feel like, 'Oh, man. People haven't seen nothing. They don't even know what I'm about to do,' and that's what I can't wait to show the world.

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

All I need is one mic One beat, one stage One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib One god to show me how to do things his son did.

The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.