You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

Science is most definitely not a priesthood where people stand on a mountain and pass truths down to the waiting minions below.

The feelings of guilt takes away self-confidence, reduces self-esteem welcomes fear, confusion, disappointment, depression etc.

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.

Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in.

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love.

I miss my mattress when I am gone; It's one thing I've made an impression on.

Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.